José Alvalade
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José Alfredo Holtreman Roquette, known as José Alvalade, was one of the founders and first club member of multisport club Sporting Clube de Portugal in the early twentieth century, founded along with
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Spanish flu
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The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the misleading name Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 subtype of the in
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…de Portugal pursuing the ideals of "Effort, Dedication, Devotion and Glory." José Alvalade died at the age of 33, on 19 October 1918, a victim of the pneumonic epidemic. In 1947, after a General Assembly of Sporting CP, it was decided that the stadium should adopt its current name, Estádio José Alvalade, in his honor…
Soldiers sick with Spanish flu at a hospital ward at Camp Funston in Fort Riley, Kansas
El Sol (Madrid), 28 May 1918: "The three-day fever – In Madrid 80,000 Are Infected – H.M. the King is sick"
Advertisement in The Times, 28 June 1918 for Formamint tablets to prevent "Spanish influenza"
Front page of The Times (London), 25 June 1918: "The Spanish Influenza"