Honey Bees To Get Help from the US Army, page 1

Honey Bees To Get Help from the US Army

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Since last fall, the strange phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) has killed off a quarter of America's honeybee population, and threatened 25 percent of our food supply. (A wide variety of crops rely on pollination.) This past spring, a nationwide effort by top DNA scientists determined that CCD is probably caused by a number of factors, including multiple bee-killing viruses. But identifying specific viruses with DNA sequencing is a slow, painstaking process.

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I hope the Army's Biowarfare guys can help out. CCD is a massive crisis that is not getting enough attention by the media or the populous. Yet it has the potential to devastate our economy, cause more harm than Terrorism or Global Warming. With the conversion to Bio Fuels in progress, CCD could prove a very grave threat to the nation by keeping us dependent on foreign oil due to loss of Bio Fuel crops.

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[edit on 9/9/07 by MikeboydUS]

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