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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/07/MNSQS0KNG.DTL&feed=rss.news
The virus, called Israeli acute paralysis, may have been brought into the United States in bees imported from Australia. That importation was first permitted in 2004, about the same time that the new disease - called Colony Collapse Disorder, or CCD - began appearing in the United States.
Australian bees do not suffer from CCD, leading researchers to speculate that the virus acts synergistically with chemicals in the environment or with another infectious agent, such as the varroa mite, which is not common in Australia.
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