Sequence of an epidemic

454 has potentially uncovered the cause of colony collapse disorder (CCD) that has been plaguing North American honeybee colonies for a couple of years. 454 has sequencing technology that allowed them to simply sequence collapsed colonies and non-collapsed and compare.
However, one sequence appears particularly significant: that of the Israeli Acute paralysis Paralysis Virus (IAPV), which was only detected in the collapsed colonies.
Hopefully this awesome display of the power of sequencing will help 454 overcome it's embarrassing contamination in their work with the Neanderthal genome.