Rodrigues Alves
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Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves was a Brazilian politician and statesman who served as the fifth president of Brazil, from 1902 to 1906. Alves was elected in 1902, becoming the third consecutive Sã
Official portrait, 1902
Rodrigues Alves
Rodrigues Alves and his children, 1913.
Cartoon depicting the Vaccine Revolt.
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
Rodrigues Alves
…vote, and was scheduled to take office on 15 November 1918. He was unable to do so because of illness, and he died on 16 January 1919, a victim of the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918–1919…
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"