(La Revista da semana, Rio de Janeiro, 1900) (While I can’t capture the idiom, the point of the cartoon is clear. There are similar flu-related cartoons in Czech and Hungarian versions.)
The first creditor appears on the stairs,…
Another comes up, and another…
…yet another,… finally dozens
They knock on Casusa’s door, “a bloody fresh band at dawn.”
Casusa arrives at the door, burning in [illegible]. And he says to the people in a very stern tone, “I have bubonic plague around the house.”
“Plague?! Jesus! We’ve got to leave now!!”
Sic Transit Pestilentia 