Texas sisters die 102 years apart from different worldwide pandemics

The coronavirus has claimed the life of a 96- year-old Texas female whose sister died from the Spanish flu in 1918, according to a report.

Selma Esther Ryan, who died at an assisted-living center in Austin recently, wasn’t yet born when her sister, Esther, passed away 102 years ago at the age of 5, according to WGN-TV.

” On April 3, I got a call from the facility that 5 homeowners, including my mother, were running a temperature,” Ryan’s child Vicki informed the news outlet.

” Over the next five days I watched through the window as she got sicker and sicker.

Ryan had not been tested for COVID-19 up until after she died, Vicki stated, including that the Travis County Medical Inspector’s Office later on verified her infection.

She was born 5 years after her sister passed away during the 1918 pandemic, which proved to be deadly for children.

According to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the 1918 pandemic infected 500 million individuals globally– a third of the world’s population at the time– and eliminated 50 million individuals, including 675,000 in the US.