WBUR TODAY: 🦠 Produce parasite
❤️ Donate Friday, July 10, 2026 ☀️ Mostly sunny with chance of showers, high of 89. Good Morning Boston, Boston's World Cup party is officially over. The nearly monthlong affair began with the welcome invasion by the Tartan Army and ended yesterday with France's 2-0 quarterfinal win over Morocco at Gillette Stadium. (Now they can send someone out to peel the tape off all 64,628 seats.) Let's kick it: Buggin' : We know many of you read this newsletter over breakfast, so maybe put the cereal spoon down while we tell you about the latest food-borne illness making headlines. Cyclospora is a tiny one-cell parasite having a big impact. Massachusetts is one of 17 states with a documented case of cyclosporiasis. Eighteen people have been sickened so far this year, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. The DPH said that's a normal seasonal amount of cyclosporiasis, though other states have had larger outbreaks. Michigan has reported more than a t...