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The Texas-based ice cream company Blue Bell Creameries has announced that after being away from markets for eight months, its products will be back in the Louisiana markets on December 21 2015. The company had withdrawn all its ice creams from the market in April 2015 after the incidents of contamination were reported.

The company received 10 complaints of listeria in four states, inclusive of death of three people in a Kansas hospital. Following the reports and recall of its products, the production processes of the company have been enhanced. The company is focusing extremely on the hygiene and cleaning aspects of production. Furthermore, an independent microbiology expert has been appointed for the supervision of the company's activities.

The CDC has recommended that everybody of age 6 months and above must get a flu vaccination every year. Pamela Prindle, Foxhall Internists’ immunization clinic director called it quite troubling.

This year, the flu vaccine is likely to be 60% effective. It’s likely that all the people who got vaccinated against flu this year have directly contributed to herd immunity. It is an idea that the more members of a population are immune, the less will be the chances that the ones who are at more risk will get infection.

The disease is apparently following a more normal pattern now. While speaking to KREM-TV, Dr. Dave Hylsky of the Panhandle Health District, where the casualty was reported, said that immunization must be a priority for every Idaho family.

US health regulators are carrying out investigation into the complaints filed against laboratory and research practices at Theranos Inc. The complaints were filed by the former employees of the blood-testing startup company.

The first complaint was filed in September by a former Theranos lab employee to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. As per the complaint, the management instructed the lab employees to keep testing patients with the company’s blood-analysis devices despite knowing that the devices had some major stability, precision and accuracy problems.

For the first time, Jimmy Carter reached late to his Bible study class on Sunday. The former US President broke the news that his 28-year-old grandson, Jeremy, has died. The 91-year-old grandfather also apologized for being late.

Voice of Carter, who some days ago made an announcement that he is now cancer-free, was indicating the former president was very sad. With a heavy heart, Carter announced that his grandson had died some hours before. Relatives tried to revive Jeremy with CPR, but it was an unsuccessful attempt.

“When he got ready to eat supper, he told his mother that he thought he would lie down awhile. His heart quit beating”, Carter said.

In a latest study, researchers have reported that lakes on the Earth could take a devastating hit from climate change. Quickly warming waters in freshwater bodies, consisting of many Great Lakes and a number of reservoirs, trigger dangerous algae blooms that will eventually threaten local ecosystems’ freshwater supplies.

For the study, a group of researchers led by Catherine O'Reilly from Illinois State University analyzed huge data. They evaluated satellite temperature data and long-term ground measurements based on 235 lakes, which stores Earth’s 50% fresh surface water supply.

NASA’s robotic detective Curiosity has come across a couple of intriguing discoveries three years after it began exploring The Red Planet. Scientists could get some help from these discoveries in completing the puzzle of how water formed, moved, and then either froze or has left Mars.

In the past few months, for the first time, Curiosity has discovered the rock-forming chemical silica in abundance. It is a mineral that contains silicon and oxygen and, is generally deposited by water on earth.

Jens Frydenvang an astro-geologist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico of the discoveries in a short video said that they don’t have complete understanding of what this means, so far.