From March 23, 2021, ListVerse "Top 10 Luckiest Unlucky People Whose Luck Nearly Killed Them" by Jonathan H. Kantor,
As we all know now, surviving a pandemic is no walk in the park. Well, how about surviving two of them, a century apart? Getting infected can be deadly. It certainly was with the influenza strain A/H1N1 that devastated the world between 1918 and 1920.
The Spanish flu killed some 20-100 million people, thanks to the fast spread and speed at which the virus killed infected people.
Two people who were infected back then and managed to survive that first pandemic were Anna del Priorie and her sister Helen, who were young children in that first one.
While they weren't the only ones to survive that one, they are among a small group to survive both of them. Anna and Helen were 105 & 107 years old respectively when they were infected by COVID-19. Despite their advanced age the second time they both managed to beat the odds and survive a second time.
--Cooter
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