Diseases of the honey bee#Israel acute paralysis virus .28IAPV.29

The Israel Acute Paralysis Virus abbreviated IAPV ( to German as Israeli Acute - Bienenparalyse virus) is occurring in combination with the Varroa mite virosis the honeybee and is considered a possible cause of bee colonies dying massively occurring in the U.S. in the winter of 2006-2007, which as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) is called.

Currently, most information from the Colony Collapse Disorder Working Group, which operates essentially at the Pennsylvania State University come. Your preliminary report pointed to some patterns, but did not arrive at definite conclusions. Recent research mainly under Ian Lipkin of the Center for Infection and Immunology at the Mailman School of Public Health, Diana Cox -Foster of Pennsylvania State University, Jay Daniel Evans of the Bee Research Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Nancy A. Moran of the University of Arizona have a statistical association between the occurrence of the Israel Acute Paralysis virus ( IAPV ) and the bees dying.

The virus was discovered in 2004 in Israel and probably introduced via the importation of bees from Australia to the United States. In Australia, this virus caused no significant colony losses since Australian bee populations are not weakened by the varroa mite.