******Israeli scientists discover virus & vaccine to save world's threatened bees & harvests, video [View All]

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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1101842.html

YouTube video:
The vaccine does not have to be injected into millions of bees, an impossible task, but can instead be effective in feed fed to bees:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqPtLQzfJ74&eurl=

http://www.israel21c.org/bin/en.jsp?enDispWho=Articles%5El2624&enPage=BlankPage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enVersion=0&enZone=Technology&

http://www.beeologics.com/

http://www.beeologics.com/aboutUs.asp

"With offices and laboratories in the United States and Israel, Beeologics brings together some of the world's most recognized virologists and microbiologists to help achieve its mission. To date, Beeologics is the only company to make a scientific breakthrough on the road to protecting bees from viruses. Incorporated in 2007, Beeologics was founded upon many years of research conducted by some of the world's leading scientists."

A huge portion of the world's agriculture depends on bees to pollinate crops. In recent years crops have been threatened over huge regions due to the inexplicable collapse of bee health and populations, called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). All sorts of theories have been put forward as to why this is happening, such as pesticide use. Though that and other theories might be contributing factors, Israeli scientists have discovered a specific virus that is afflicting the world's bee populations with several related strains. They have also developed a vaccine to save the bees. The vaccine has proven effective in restoring bee health and solving the problem. This is a revolutionary development for what has become a looming world disaster threatening food production and food prices.

Colony Collapse Disorder:

http://www.beeologics.com/CCD.asp

"Various factors such as mites and infectious agents, weather patterns, electromagnetic (cellular antennas) radiation, pesticides, poor nutrition and stress have been postulated as causes. To date, control of CCD has focused on varroa mite control, sanitation and removal of affected hives, treatment for opportunistic infections (such as Nosema) and improved nutrition. No effective preventative measures have been developed to date. The idea that CCD is due to the introduction of a previously unrecognized infectious agent is supported by preliminary evidence that CCD is transmissible through the reuse of equipment from CCD colonies and that such transmission can be broken by irradiation of the equipment before use."

This proves it's an infectious agent. The treatment developed, though uses a vaccine in feed, not radiation.

Remembee bee vaccine, delivered in feed, proves effective in saving bees, sustaining bee colony health:

http://www.beeologics.com/products.asp

http://www.beeologics.com/remembee.asp

http://www.beeologics.com/remembee_pro.asp

The vaccine provides:

• Potent protection from the following bee virus strains:

• Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus (IAPV)
• Kashmir Bee Virus (KBV)
• Black Queen Cell Virus (BQCV)
• Deformed Wing Virus (DWV)

• Potentially applicable to additional bee viruses
• Inherent robustness precludes the possibility of the virus breaking resistance
• Extreme specificity for each of the strains
• No toxicity
• No residues in honey bees or honey