#Australia allowing imported honey from #China is comparable to a parent sending their child to school with #conjunctivitis. Unfair to all the other kids. The Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (RIRDC) have released a report into honey disease management systems. This is most relevant to commercial beekeepers. If anyone would like this report please email hellobeethecure@gmail.com. What we can all learn from this report is its wise not to mix bee colony's, extracted frames should go back into hives they came from. Most backyard beekeepers already follow this approach as they only have 1 or 2 hives. If your hives are stationary and bees are nourished it is less likely you will contract these diseases. Top picture is American foul brood There are approximately 2,500 million P. larvae spores in the remains of one infected honey bee larva. The spores may remain viable for at least 35 years. This is true for spores found in honey. The spores are very resistant to heat. AFB is believed to have entered Australia through imported honey. AFB is not treatable with antibiotics. European foulbrood European foulbrood (EFB) is a bacterial disease that effects honey bee larvae before the capped stage. EFB is characterised by dead and dying larvae which can appear curled upwards. EFB is more likely to occur in malnourished bees. The antibiotic Terramycin is the only product to control of European foulbrood. New Zealand protect their industry by not allowing the importation of honey. Scientist Rob Manning said if we stop importing honey and moving hives around en masse we can attempt stop these diseases.