Meet Ana del Valle, 107, who survived a bout with the Spanish Flu - and Covid-19 [View all]
A 107-year-old Spanish woman, Ana del Valle, became famous after learning that she managed to overcome two pandemics: the Coronavirus and the Spanish Flu of 1918.
According to her daughter-in-law, Paqui Sánchez, del Valle had tested positive for Covid-19 after contracting the disease in the nursing home where she lives in Alcalá del Valle, in southern Spain's Andalusia region.
Testing positive on March 20, she became seriously ill, was hospitalized in an intensive care unit and sedated.
Her symptoms subsided and a third test recently came back negative - indicating a recovery that doctors called "incredible."
del Valle had also contracted the Spanish Flu as a child in 1918.
Raised in rural Spain, she was only a few years old when she had to go out looking for food. Hours later her mother found her under an oak tree with a very high fever, Sánchez explained.
The Spanish Flu caused tens of millions of deaths worldwide. But Ana, then 5, recovered.
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One tough cookie: Ana del Valle, 107, is the only individual in Spain known to have recovered from bouts of both the 1918 Spanish Flu and the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
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