Tag: Mouth
Biosecurity beefed up for Australians returning from Bali to stop foot and mouth disease
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Biosecurity measures have been strengthened at Australian airports after the highly contagious foot and mouth disease was found in Bali. Detector dogs will operate at Darwin and Cairns airports and biosecurity officer...
Officials rule out suspected foot and mouth case in Norfolk
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Officials have ruled out a suspected case of foot and mouth disease in Norfolk. Movement restrictions and a temporary six-mile (10km) control zone for animals were enforced around a pig farm near Feltwell in west Norf...
Suspected foot and mouth outbreak being investigated in Norfolk
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A suspected foot and mouth outbreak on a pig farm near Feltwell in West Norfolk is being investigated by animal health officials. A 10km control zone preventing the movement of any susceptible animal into or out of th...
It’s been a year since I’ve been close to a stranger’s mouth – can I recover from ‘Zoom face’?
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Last April, I ran into a neighbour on the street. This was not a person I knew well, just someone I used to see from my window, walking masked around the neighbourhood during that first locked-down winter of the pande...
Always look a Tory gift unicorn in the mouth – cartoon
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Chris Riddell on the party desperately brushing up its green credentials before Cop26• You can order your own copy of this cartoon
‘My mouth was the Temple of Doom’: I survived my first dentist appointment in a decade
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When I was a kid I would sometimes catch my mum vacuuming and dusting the already spotless house. When I asked what she was up to, she’d say she was “tidying up for the cleaner”. It’s still a family joke. And yet that...
Trial to test if cannabis-based mouth spray can treat brain tumours
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Cancer charities and the NHS are preparing to investigate whether a cannabis-based mouth spray can treat brain tumours and help patients to live longer. Doctors will give patients across the UK with a recurrent brain ...
Meatless Farm gives customers chance to put money where their mouth is
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Plant-based burger and sausage maker Meatless Farm is giving its customers the chance to put their money where their mouth is and invest in the fast-growing company, which hopes to follow in the footsteps of runaway “...
‘My God, I’m in a whale’s mouth’: lobster diver recalls brush with humpback
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A New England lobsterman has described the moment he realised he was trapped in the mouth of a humpback whale off the coast of Cape Cod. “Oh my God, I’m in a whale’s mouth and he’s trying to swallow me. I thought to m...
In the mouth of the whale: lobster diver swallowed by humpback lives to tell the tale
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A commercial lobster diver who got caught in the mouth of a humpback whale off the coast of Cape Cod on Friday morning said he thought he was going to die. Michael Packard, 56, of Wellfleet, told WBZ-TV after he was r...
‘Your mouth becomes a minefield’: the Americans who can’t afford the dentist
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Maureen Haley, 66, lost her home in Florida in the wake of the 2008 recession. She now lives in a camper near Greensboro, North Carolina, relying on social security and Medicare to make ends meet and pay for healthcar...
Smash parties, talking vulvas and Big Mouth: inside Titmouse animation studio
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Animation is an anarchic medium. Anything can happen. In the hit Netflix show Big Mouth, hormone monsters haunt pubescent teens, characters surf waves of their own menstrual blood and the class clown forms a bisexual ...