From: cslade777@aol.com
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 19:32:24 EDT
To: BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: How do you tell diseases apart

In a message dated 07/10/01 10:50:40 GMT Daylight Time,
deelusbybeekeeper@excelonline.com writes:

<< Robert, since Chris has already mentioned treatments not working for the
EFB in UK and shakedowns starting I guess 40 years went by rather quickly in
your neck of the woods. >>

Dee,

You misunderstand what I wrote. There is AFAIK no resistance of EFB to
Oxytetracycline in the UK. It just doesn't do the job of eliminating EFB.
It only suppresses it temporarily, then it flares up again. It is a
bacteriostat rather than a bacteriocide. This is almost certainly the case
everywhere it is used which is why it has to be used so often. The chemical
treadmill.

It appears as if our scientists have wised up to it.

Chris