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Girl, 10, Ends Up In Hospital After Trying Sour Sweet Called 'Black Death'

Mia-Rose Bower burnt her throat and was treated in hospital after trying the Black Death sweet(Picture Kennedy News Media)

A 10-year-old girl ended up in hospital after burning her throat on the 'world's sourest sweet', called Black Death.

Mia-Rose Bowyer, who had seen people trying Black Death on TikTok and YouTube, accidently inhaled the boiled sweet due to its extreme sourness, leaving it lodged in her throat.

Mia-Rose's aunt tried to perform the Heimlich manoeuvre and called 999, but thankfully, after two minutes the girl managed to remove it herself.

She was then rushed to hospital where doctors put her on oxygen, steroids and antibiotics to help her breathe and prevent further swelling.

Her mum Stevie Bower, 32, said: 'When a consultant came to see me he said "imagine a third-degree burn on her arm but down her throat"'.

After three days and a number of scans and x-rays, Mia-Rose was given the all clear to go home but will need a follow-up appointment to see if there's any permanent damage to her vocal chords.

Stevie added: 'Her voice sounds very husky, I'm praying her voice does come back.'

The youngster, from Reading, Berkshire, had been at a sleepover at her aunt's (Stevie's sister), with Stevie's other daughter, Olivia, 13 and their cousins on Saturday night and was looking forward to watching films and eating snacks.

Black Death, sold by Mr Simms, is described as the 'world's most sour sweet' (Picture: Mr Simms/Kennedy News Media)

With her mum's permission, Mia-Rose had asked her aunt to try the Black Death sweet, which is sold by Mr Simms Olde Sweet Shoppe, a firm with more than 50 franchises in the UK and Hong Kong.

Mia-Rose, whose lips went blue during the ordeal, said: 'I saw videos on TikTok of other children trying the Black Death sweet. I saw them pull funny faces and wanted to try it.

'At first when it went into my mouth it wasn't sour but then it went really sour.

'I went to spit it out, [but] it rolled back [down my throat]. It was really scary.

'It was a relief when it came out. When the sweet came out I threw it on the floor and cuddled my aunty. I thought I was going to die.

'My throat is sore and burnt, I would never have a sweet like that again.'

Black Death, marketed as 'the most sour sweet ever', comes with a warning that it 'may cause temporary mouth and/or stomach irritation' and that it's not suitable for children under eight.

A spokesman from Mr Simms said Black Death had been removed from shelves while it conducts an investigation, but added that the sweet, which tastes of lemon, has been sold for 11 years with no other incidents reported.

Full-time mum Stevie said: 'The girls like sour sweets and had seen videos on TikTok and YouTube about one called Black Death – 'the world's most super-sour sweet'.

Mia-Rose in hospital after inhaling the sweet

'They're not recommended for children under the age of eight and it does state on the packet it can cause stomach irritation and irritation for your mouth.

'I didn't look into that until afterwards because you don't expect a sweet to do any of that.

'I thought 'well if it's not sold to under eights and it's in a sweet shop it can't be that bad'. But obviously I thought wrong.

She said her sister bought the sweet from a store in Reading.

'I was fully aware she had, and I didn't think anything of it.'

Mia-Rose said she thought she was going to die

Stevie said that evening she got a call from her sister's boyfriend.

'I could hear everybody screaming and I could hear kids crying. "He said 'you need to get back now'. I was like what's happened?

'At this time Mia still had the sweet lodged in her throat, I could hear them trying to get it out. I felt sick and I was shaking.

'When you're being told that I was just lost for words, it was like I could be going home to no child – a lifeless child. I feared she could die.

'It ended up being [stuck] nearly two minutes, by this time her lips had already gone blue.

'While my sister was doing all she could, Mia ended up getting her hand and dislodging the sweet.'

Stevie is sharing what happened to warn other parents about the potential dangers.

Mia-Rose pictured with her mum Stevie (Credits: Kennedy News and Media)

She said: 'It should be an 18+ thing, but honestly I don't think it should be sold at all because it could happen to anybody.

'TikTok allowing videos like this annoys me. It's become a craze 'oh try this it's just a sour sweet'.

A spokesman for Mr Simms Olde Sweet Shoppe said: 'We are extremely sorry to hear of what happened to Mia and wish her a full and speedy recovery. We take such matters seriously and an investigation into this case will be undertaken as a matter of urgency.

'Many of our customers are children and we have rigorous procedures to ensure they can enjoy our sweets in safety and the ingredients used in our products comply with food health and safety standards in line with UK legislation.

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The Black Death And The Great Plague

The Black Death was a serious disease that killed millions over people around the world over a period of several hundred years. It was named after the colour of the sores that grew under the skin of the people infected by it.

In 1348 the Black Death arrived in England and by 1349 it had spread to Wales. Carmarthen, an important port, had the first cases but the disease soon spread across the whole country. Caldicot, Pembroke and Haverfordwest were all badly hit, while the lead miners of Holywell were virtually wiped out.

Across Britain it killed between a third and half of the population. It was not only the number of deaths that terrified people. They were also frightened because the disease was very painful and it affected rich and poor people alike.

Medical professionals at the time could not correctly explain the cause of the plague. Various causes were put forward.

Today we know that there were two main forms of plague:

However, there is still some debate about which type of plague was most serious. Some scientists believe that bubonic plague was most serious because it was spread by rat fleas. Others think that pneumonic plague was most serious because of the way it spread rapidly from human to human. In either case, death usually happened within three days.

The plague returned seven more times before 1405. Over the next three centuries, plague epidemicscloseepidemicAn infectious disease which spreads rapidly to a large number of people in a short period of time. Visited Britain on numerous occasions.

One of the biggest outbreaks of the bubonic plague was the Great Plague of 1665. This was the worst outbreak for over 300 years and claimed around 65,000 victims, one-sixth of the city's population.

People still believed in a variety of causes of the plague, eg the position of the planets, comets, miasmaclosemiasmaSmells from decomposing material, such as animal and human waste, that were thought to cause disease. Or sinful behaviour. This time, however, the authorities did try to stop the plague spreading. Houses containing people with the plague were marked with a red cross. Sentries were placed outside and the inhabitants were told to observe a 40-day quarantine.ClosequarantineA period of time during which a person is isolated due to a contagious disease - to prevent the disease being passed to other people. Searchers of the dead were employed to determine cause of death and the dead were collected at night.

However, doctors had no real idea about what caused the plague. In fact, it was only the onset of winter that brought it to an end.

Black Death Row Inmates Suffer Botched Executions At Twice Rate Of Whites In US

Black incarcerated people have been subjected to prolonged and painful botched executions in the US at more than twice the rate of white death row inmates, a new study has found.

While glaring racial disparities have long been visible in US capital punishment, the report from the international human rights group Reprieve finds that the inequities exist even inside the death chamber. It reveals a shocking racial disparity in the rate of botched executions in which lethal injections went awry, both nationwide and in individual death penalty states.

Alabama inmate executed with nitrogen gas was 'shaking violently', witnesses say

Reprieve analyzed all lethal injection executions between 1976, when the US death penalty was restarted after a brief pause, and 2023. It chronicled 73 confirmed botched procedures – a shocking figure in itself given the suffering that prolonged and flawed executions can cause despite the promise of a "humane" death made by advocates of lethal injections.

When looked at through a racial lens, 8% of executions of Black people were botched (37 times out of 465 executions), compared with 4% for white people (28 out of 780).

The Reprieve report has attracted congressional interest. Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic senior senator from Massachusetts, said the findings "underscore the racial injustice of capital punishment and is yet another reason Congress must abolish the death penalty once and for all".

Cory Booker, the Democratic junior senator from New Jersey, called on the Biden administration to do more "to address the devastating harms of capital punishment". He urged the justice department to enforce laws governing the drugs used by states in lethal injections.

A trio of death penalty states stand out in the Reprieve report. In Georgia, which has killed 77 death row inmates since 1976, 86% of botched executions involved Black prisoners when only 30% of all executed people were Black.

About 75% of botched executions in Arkansas were of Black people, who accounted for just 33% of all executions. The state has put to death 31 people since 1976.

The third state with especially disturbing statistics is Oklahoma. Out of a total of 125 executions since 1976, 30% were of Black prisoners yet 85% of those procedures that were botched involved Black people.

Oklahoma was the state responsible for one of the most gruesome botched executions in recent times. In 2014, Clayton Lockett, a Black man, writhed and groaned on a gurney and was declared dead only after 43 minutes.

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Last year Oklahoma was one of only five states, mainly in the US south, that carried out executions. It has set an aggressive schedule of 25 executions at a rate of almost one a month, raising fears that it will repeat the disastrous mistakes that Lockett endured.

A report from the Death Penalty Information Center has highlighted the racial bias in the practice of Oklahoma's death penalty since the first recorded execution in the state in 1841. Since 1976, 32% of all executions have been of Black people, who comprise only 7% of the state's population.

One of the most distressing elements of botched executions is how long they take to complete. Of the 73 incidents identified by Reprieve, over one in four lasted more than an hour.

"The death penalty is racist, cruel and inhumane punishment that has no place in a just society," said Ayanna Pressley, the progressive congresswoman from Massachusetts. She said that the Reprieve report was a damning reminder that "capital punishment has disproportionately killed Black people in America and the lethal injection method has caused unconscionable suffering".

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