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Article: CCD, virus link found.(News)
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- September 17, 2007
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A TEAM led by scientists from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Pennsylvania State University and Columbia University has found an association between colony collapse disorder (CCD) in honeybees and a honeybee virus called Israeli acute paralysis virus (IAPV), according to a paper published in the journal Science.
ARS entomologist Jeffery S. Pettis, research leader of the agency's Bee Research Laboratory in Beltsville, Md.; Diana L. Cox-Foster, a professor in the Penn State department of entomology, and W. Ian Lipkin, director of the Center for Infection & Immunity at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, ...