View Masks During Spanish Flu Images. During the influenza pandemic of 1918, officials often advised americans to wear face masks in public. Doctors believed that masks could help prevent spray infections, according to historian the masks disrupted lives in unexpected ways.

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Reports of illness and mortality due to the flu were minimized in countries including us, britain, germany and france due to wartime press censorship as it was considered that the news of the flu would be detrimental to the war effort. A version of this story appears in the september 2020 issue of national geographic magazine. A san francisco fisherman said bandits in flu masks robbed him.

'at last,' many thought, they were safe.

Officials rushed through laws requiring people to wear masks in public. In early december 1918, the times newspaper in london reported that it had been established, by doctors in the united states, that the. Officials rushed through laws requiring people to wear masks in public. 'at last,' many thought, they were safe.