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    It has crossed a yawning chasm ~1.6 billion years wide

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    seems just a bit of a stretch...

nice. I really don't know anything about pathology, but I did find it strange that the article phrased that particular idea in that way. I mean, there were all those articles about bird flu and swine flu a while back (not to mention the prevalence of chicken pox) so viruses "jumping" from one kind of life form to another doesn't seem all that strange, or at least, no stranger than usual.

Anyway, you seem to know something about viruses. If that's so, how might bees be prevented from getting this virus? A vaccine (as administered to humans) doesn't seem like a practical solution and neither does destroying all the bees that have been exposed to the virus and yet, this situation hasn't been presented as one that seems likely to "work itself out" as it were, at least not in the (few) articles I've read about it.