Health
At 106, early vaccine recipient still remembers Spanish flu – The Sydney Morning Herald
Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1914, Morley was a girl when the so-called Spanish flu killed millions around the world in 1918-1920.
Centenarians like Morley are among the first vaccine recipients in many countries, including Brazil, where the government’s immunisation campaign officially kicked off on Tuesday with distribution of the Chinese-developed CoronaVac product.
With more than 210,000 deaths, Latin America’s largest nation has the second highest tally in the world behind the United States, according to Johns Hopkins Universitys database.
Morley’s doctor, Paulo Cesar Cunha Fabiano, 73, who has been working at the Vovo…
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