Climate change will increase foodborne illness risk from raw produce, research suggests

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1. lettuce don’t bite you when you’re out playing softball.

   Massachusetts towns set voluntary curfew amid EEE case

   [https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/northeast/massachusetts-curfew-eastern-equine-encephalitis-mosquitos/](https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/northeast/massachusetts-curfew-eastern-equine-encephalitis-mosquitos/)

    A voluntary evening lockdown has been enacted in four [Massachusetts ](https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/ap-us-news/ap-gun-rights-activists-target-new-massachusetts-law-with-lawsuit-and-repeal-effort/)towns amid a potentially fatal [mosquito-born disease](https://www.newsnationnow.com/health/mosquito-population-growing-west-nile-virus-spreading/).

   The towns of Webster, Oxford, Sutton and Douglas made the decision [following confirmation of the first human case](https://www.mass.gov/news/state-health-officials-announce-seasons-first-human-case-of-eastern-equine-encephalitis-in-massachusetts) of Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) in Worcester County since 2020.