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    Default AFB in Inverness-shire?

    Our local rag says there is AFB in Inverness-shire. Is this true. I did sign up for the alert for diseases but not heard anything.

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    Yes. an e-mail went out to local secretaries from the SBA to pass on to their members

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    I think perhaps it's not near enough to you for you to be alerted in the normal course of events. I gather it's near Inverness in an area where it was found before.

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    Thanks all.

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    Hi
    thats it? Wow, here there is an immediate ban on transport of bees in and out of a big area around the site where the xfb is located. Samples are taken from surrounding hives in the area and are tested. There are some legal aspects that I cannot remember of the top of my head, but if you try to remove hives from the area to there are heavy fines.. Luckily we haven't had that here in a while. Over the border in Austria they've had problems, but now they offer free testing to every club member to try and get a better hold of it.

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    Just go a news cutting about the outbreak...
    Travel ban for hives and equipment out of the affected apiary - did anyone tell the bees?

    Here is the German Law regarding AFB, maybe Doris could do a list of highlights from it...
    http://www.buzer.de/gesetz/34/b74.htm and here the other laws regarding other bee diseases
    http://www.buzer.de/gesetz/34/index.htm
    Last edited by Calum; 06-07-2012 at 07:56 AM.

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