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Me, I find these things scary as heck.

To treat an old box from an AFB hive I would not bother, I know at least one beekeeper who gave up on wax dipping because he felt the AFB was coming back afterwards.

Then to treat new boxes against rot, I have still seen dipped boxes starting to rot in ten years.

I guess both those issues might be put down to incorrect procedure during the dipping, I don't know. But me, if a hives has AFB, I burn it, I know it's gone.