View Spanish Flu Masks Bird PNG. Over 30 countries have made masks compulsory in public, including germany, austria and poland. Officials rushed through laws requiring people to wear masks in public.

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It was called the spanish flu because the first human case was identified there. But how exactly did a flu virus cause such massive death and destruction across the world? A fantastic collection of pictures from the deadly 1918 spanish flu pandemic, including tent hospitals, people wearing preventative masks and a sick child.

A woman taking a train from chicago to pasadena, calif., reportedly experienced a break from sanity when she disembarked and beheld the masked city, according to a story in the los.

Over 30 countries have made masks compulsory in public, including germany, austria and poland. Avian influenza (bird flu) is a disease of birds caused by influenza viruses closely related to human influenza viruses. However, we're not entirely convinced that this cat is also wearing a mask. It was nicknamed the spanish flu, the spanish lady and the blue death.