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Barbers in California wearing masks during the epidemic. The Anti-Mask League was an organization formed in San Francisco, California to protest an ordinance which required people in that city to wear masks during the 1918 influenza pandemic. The ordinance it protested lasted less than one month before being repealed.
Despite the high morbidity and mortality rates that resulted from the epidemic, the Spanish flu began to fade from public awareness over the decades until the arrival of news about bird flu and other pandemics in the 1990s and 2000s. [320] [321] This has led some historians to label the Spanish flu a "forgotten pandemic". [177]
The term "Spanish" flu was coined because Spain was at the time the only European country where the press were printing reports of the outbreak, which had killed thousands in the armies fighting World War I (1914–1918). Other countries suppressed the news in order to protect morale.
The year was 1918. As World War I was ending, the Spanish Flu began ravaging the world. Within a year, it killed 675,000 Americans and 50 million worldwide -- 10 million more than those who ...
The Spanish flu pandemic lasted from 1918 to 1920. [58] Various estimates say it killed between 17 million and 100 million people [ 59 ] [ 28 ] [ 60 ] This pandemic has been described as "the greatest medical holocaust in history" and may have killed as many people as the Black Death , [ 61 ] although the Black Death is estimated to have killed ...
Photo of Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D.C., during the great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 - 1919, also known as the "Spanish Flu". Patients are set up in rows of beds on an open gallery, seperated by hung sheets. A nurse wears a cloth mask over her nose and mouth. Date: Not dated, probably during the height of the epidemic, 1918 - 1919: Source
The Spanish Flu was one of the deadliest natural disasters in human history. In less than 3 years it infected 30% and killed up to 5% of the entire world population.
“Masks don't have to be an all or nothing, but they remain a really effective tool.” However, Doron says not all respiratory viruses are transmitted in the same way.