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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alastair" data-source="post: 11288" data-attributes="member: 13">Very quick and rough calculation.  900,000 hives in the country, 0.2% infections ( it will be more cos we know many of them do not get reported) but let's be conservative and base on that, would be 1,800 hives. Value of hives is all over the place right now but let's say a conservative $200.00 per hive. Cost is $360,000.00 annually.Of course that is a very rough estimate and the real cost could be several multiples higher. Then there is the time we have to spend looking for it and the inconvenience of dealing with infected hives. I'm going to say the all up genuine cost of AFB, both reported and not reported, is well in the millions.On top of that is hive levies. But realize if there were no hive levies and no AFBPMP, AFB would skyrocket (yes it would, which we know by the number of diseased hives found by AP2's, and the number of outbreaks nipped in the bud before they happened by AP2's), and the cost of finding and burning extra hives would see a very big increase, were we not funding this program.</blockquote>

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