Following the Saturday warning of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency advised consumers that cantaloupes grown in Honduras are being recalled after salmonella outbreaks in North America.

Officials have cautioned the public not to eat melons from Agropecuaria Montelibano, a Honduran grower and packer. The melons may be contaminated with salmonella bacteria and appear to be related to salmonella litchfield reports in Canada and the US

The Nassau County Department of Health reported Saturday that a Long Island fast food worker had typhoid fever.The patient is a food handler at a Mama Sbarro's in Hicksville, New York. Officials warned those who ate at the restaurant between March 14 and March 16 may have some risk of exposure.

The restaurant has passed two surprise health inspections since Friday, which was when the county was informed about the food handler's condition

Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter praised on Saturday the local health officials' response to a salmonella outbreak that has made dozens of people sick. Health officials are tracing the source.

As of Saturday, the outbreak had led to 183 cases of salmonella, 57 were confirmed by laboratory testing and nine people were hospitalized. More people are expected to get sick because of salmonella's incubation period

State health officials said yesterday that four Massachusetts children have died of the flu this month.

The Department of Public Health reports that a 12-year-old girl from Worcester County died Sunday from complications of flu, two days after a 15-year-old died of bacterial flu- related pneumonia. These two recent deaths, however, were healthy children before coming down with the flu. The first two influenza deaths happened in a 6-year-old and a 14-year who had significant underlying medical problems

The Oswego County and New York State Health Department are investigating the death of a SUNY Oswego student Friday morning, in a likely a case of bacterial meningococcal meningitis. Craig Schiesser, an18-year-old freshman, was taken to the Oswego Hospital emergency room the same morning.

As a result, the school's president, Deborah Stanley sent out an alert to those persons who were in close contact with the infected student within the past 10 days are at risk of infection