Eastman Kodak, a U.S. pioneer in camera and film production since 1880, and the first company to make a digital camera, will no longer make cameras of any kind.
Kodak went bankrupt in January 2012. At least 400 employees in New York will lose their jobs. The company will focus on its lagging printer brand […] Continue Reading…
Forget the European Union crisis, Japan’s sovereign debt (such as government bonds) is now almost double that of Italy, and more than Greece. Some analysts say there is not enough money in Japan to pay the debt.
NHK interviewed two Japanese economic/finance analysts. One, Hiromichi Shirakawa, of Credit Suisse, said Japan’s economic problems are not […] Continue Reading…
The European Union’s Eurosurveillance published a report in 2009, about Greece’s efforts to combat flu viruses: “Greece is a known crossroads among three continents (Europe, Asia, Africa) through which resistant strains can spread.”
From 2004 to 2008, Greek researchers looked at how the various viruses reacted to available anti-viral drugs. Anti-viral drugs work mainly by […] Continue Reading…
On February 3, 2012, the UN’s World Health Organization said the new strain of H3N2 will dominate the 2011/2012 flu season. This came after 1.74 million Japanese were infected in January.
The WHO said notable increases in flu cases are expected in North America, Europe and northern China.
The dominant flu is H3N2 (a type of […] Continue Reading…
On January 27, 2012, it was reported that a Canadian study concluded that outbreaks of H3N2, from 2009 to 2011, could not have been prevented with flu shots!
It also showed that young adults were the best able to fight off H3N2, children and older people are at the most risk. Also, despite health officials […] Continue Reading…
France is now the second European country to sound a warning about the latest version of H3N2 swine flu! Unlike Norway, France says the number of infections in their country are nearing epidemic levels!
Cases are escalating in the French areas of Ile-de-France, Languedoc-Roussillon and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. Health care providers are seeing an average of […] Continue Reading…
Normally the end of year holiday mailing rush generates the most revenue for the USPS, but not in 2011. Postal officials revealed that people in the U.S. cut back so much, because of bad economic times, that it even affected the shipping of holiday packages.
The huge drop in mailings cut expected revenues for […] Continue Reading…
The European Aviation Safety Agency is concerned about the strength of wing brackets in the superjumbo A380 airliner. This after routine inspections revealed that after numerous landings cracks have appeared in some of the 4,000 brackets used on the giant wings.
Safety checks have been ordered for the 68 superjumbos in use out of Europe. […] Continue Reading…
Despite claims of overall global warming, Europe and Japan are still getting hit with record low temps. In Japan record snowfall could actually help fight the radiation contamination from Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster reactors.
The heavy snow would help sweep the air of radiation, and sweep the surfaces of buildings, plants, cars and the ground […] Continue Reading…
Norway’s Public Health Institute is warning of a possible H3N2 outbreak, after seeing an increase in cases since December 2011.
On the other side of the world, Japan is already dealing with at least 1.74 million cases!
H3N2 is an older type of “Swine Flu”, not to be confused with H1N1 swine flu (as the main […] Continue Reading…