[josethayil]

Does anyone know where did american foulbrood originate from? any records or data about it will be appreciated.

 

[Beeslave]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diseases_of_the_honey_bee

History
Until 1906 the two foulbrood diseases were not differentiated and the condition was generally referred to as foulbrood. Phillips (1906) used the terms European and American to distinguish the diseases. However the designations did not refer to the geographical distributions but to the areas where they were first investigated scientifically (Shimanuki, 1990). White (1907) demonstrated conclusively that a bacterium that he called Bacillus larvae was the cause of American Foulbrood (AFB) disease by fulfilling Koch's postulates. The geographical origin of AFB is unknown, but it is found almost worldwide (Matheson, 1993,1996)[9]

 

[Michael Bush]

It is described by Aristotle and some of the old Roman writers...

 

[josethayil]

So its very old disease and probably very hard to find the origin.....???