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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JohnF" data-source="post: 7128" data-attributes="member: 233">The question for all beekeepers is what we want to do? Do you want to eliminate the clinical signs of AFB? Or eradicate the bacteria permanently. Eliminate means we may have low levels of the bacteria present but strategies mean it is kept low and we do not see clinical signs or spread.In the case of the swabs, we can detect low levels that experience to date (4 years) tells us will not progress to clinical signs . . or even increase? This is at levels 1/100th the amount where we might be concerned.We do and have detected preclinical hives where entrance spores are very high and yet the beekeeper did not see or missed clinical signs. Subseqent inspection found the clinical signs</blockquote>

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