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

Health care experts who are battling an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo are now also fighting typhus, officials said Friday.

While stressing that there is no proof that the Ebola virus has spread from the Kasai Occidental province to a second area of the Congo, WHO officials on Friday said that officials have sent samples for testing from the Kasai Oriental province

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has reportedly issued warning against the consumption of sesame seeds packed by Les Aliments G. Dion for fear that they could be contaminated with salmonella.

The warning has been issued to the public in Alberta, Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia though no case of illnesses associated with the consumption of these products has been reported

U.S. scientists claim to have uncovered a new strain of potentially deadly bacteria named bartonella rochalimae. The new species is considered to be related to the microbe that was known during the First World War as the trench fever.

It was discovered in a 43-year-old American woman who exhibited symptoms similar to typhoid fever or malaria. She had acquired it after her three week travel in Peru and has since recovered

Luanda, Angola- According to the World Health Organization an outbreak of deadly Marburg virus in Angola has now reached 157 cases. The outbreak is expected to affect even more people in the coming days. Health organizations from around the world are rushing aide to the war-ravaged country. A team of six experts from the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, has arrived in Angola to help control the outbreak, the statement said. Marburg is a rare, severe form of hemorrhagic fever closely related to the Ebola virus. After staying dormant in the body for five to 21 days, the disease comes on suddenly with symptoms including fever, chills, headache and muscular pain or tenderness. In both diseases, victims bleed to death, often from every orifice and every organ. Symptoms become increasingly severe and may include jaundice, inflammation of the pancreas, severe weight loss, delirium, shock, liver failure and multi-organ dysfunction. Many of the symptoms of Marburg are similar to those of other infectious diseases, such as malaria or typhoid fever, diagnosing the disease can be difficult. There is no specific treatment for Marburg. But health experts recommend that patients be hospitalized in order to have their electrolytes and fluids balanced, their oxygen intake and blood pressure maintained, and any lost blood and clotting factors replaced. Marburg was first recognized in 1967, when outbreaks occurred simultaneously in laboratories in Marburg and Frankfurt, Germany, and in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Almost all the Angola deaths have occurred in the northern province of Uige, on the border with Congo