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Honey bee is vital for pollination and ecological services, boosting crops productivity in terms of quality and quantity and production of colony products: wax, royal jelly, bee venom, honey, pollen and propolis. Honey bees are most important plant pollinators and almost one third of diet depends on bee's pollination, worth billions of dollars. Hence the role that honey bees have in environment and their economic importance in food production, their health is of dominant significance. Honey bees can be infected by various pathogens like: viruses, bacteria, fungi, or infested by parasitic mites. At least more than 20 viruses have been identified to infect honey bees worldwide, generally from Dicistroviridae as well as Iflaviridae families, like Acute Bee Paralysis Virus, Black Queen Cell Virus,Kashmir Bee Virus, Sacbrood Virus, Chronic bee paralysis virus, Slow Bee Paralysis Virus along with Israeli acute paralysis virus, and Deformed Wing Virus are prominent and cause infections harmful for honey bee colonies health.