30+ Old Masks Spanish Flu Background. Men needed more convincing to wear masks than did women. Over 30 countries have made masks compulsory in public, including germany, austria and poland.

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The oldest mask found is 9000 years old. A san francisco fisherman said bandits in flu masks robbed him. The spanish flu, also known as the 1918 flu pandemic, was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic caused by the h1n1 influenza a virus.

A policeman wearing a flu mask talking to a couple, one masked, one not.credit.hamilton henry dobbin, via california state library.

Masks were the uninfected's main line of defense. Masks were the uninfected's main line of defense. A fantastic collection of pictures from the deadly 1918 spanish flu pandemic, including tent hospitals, people wearing preventative masks and a sick child. Measures to curb the spanish flu's spread in 1918 were stricter than with today's coronavirus, and flouting them could lead to your murder, it has emerged.