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Colony Collapse Disorder May Affect Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Laboratory of Comparative Neuroimmunology, Department of Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Box 951763, 63-230 CHS, Los Angeles California 90095-1763, USA
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Very recently some surprising and puzzling news appeared in the media: television and newspapers, reporting a phenomenon perhaps akin to a population crash. It sounded like a pandemic in that it occurs over a large area of the world—not an epidemic, an outbreak of a disease that spreads rapidly through a community. The news caught my immediate attention since the affected population particularly concerns my initiative to advance bioprospecting (1) and more specifically biotherapy (I lectured at the VII Biotherapy Congress, Seoul Korea, June 20–25, 2007). From the inception of eCAM there has been a conscious effort to capture or focus on the beneficial effects of natural products, especially those derived from marine and terrestrial animals. The jolting news concerns honeybees and a phenomenon referred to as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), a disorder in which disturbing numbers of bees are disappearing from their colonies. This is of
For reports and all correspondence: Edwin L. Cooper, Ph D, Sc D, Laboratory of Comparative Neuroimmunology, Department of Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Box 951763, 63-230 CHS, Los Angeles California 90095-1763 USA Tel: (310) 825-9567; Fax: (310) 825-2224; E-mail: ecam@mednet.ucla.edu