AFB in Inverness-shire?

[Bridget]

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.

[Jimbo]

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

[Trog]

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.

[Bridget]

Thanks all.

[Calum]

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.

[Calum]

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