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Photos: The Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918

By Awanthi Vardaraj • 27/05/2020 at 2:05PM

The Spanish Flu was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of two pandemics involving the H1N1 influenza virus (with the second being the swine flu in 2009). It infected 500 million people around the world, or about 27 per cent of the then world population of between 1.8 and 1.9 billion, including people on isolated Pacific islands and in the Arctic. The death toll is estimated to have been anywhere from 17 million to 50 million, and possibly as high as 100 million, making it one of the deadliest epidemics in human history.

A man spraying the top of a bus with an anti-flu spray during the Spanish Flu epidemic. (Photo by Davis/Getty Images)

1st March 1919: Two men wearing and advocating the use of flu masks in Paris during the Spanish flu epidemic which followed World War I. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

27th February 1919: A woman wearing a flu mask during the Spanish flu epidemic which followed the First World War. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

View of a health warning notice about influenza, from the Anti-Tuberculosis League, posted on the inside of a public transport vehicle (likely a train), 1918 - 1920. The sign reads 'Keep Your Bed Room Windows Open! Prevent influenza, pneumonia, tuberculosis' and refers to the deadly 'Spanish Flu' pandemic that swept the globe; international mortality statistics estimate that it resulted in between 20 and 100 million deaths. (Photo by Cincinnati Museum Center/Getty Images)

An American policeman wearing a 'Flu Mask' to protect himself from the outbreak of Spanish flu following World War I. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

A New York city street sweeper wears a mask to help check the spread of the influenza epidemic, October 1918. In the view of one official of the New York Health Board, it is 'Better be ridiculous, than dead'. (Photo by PhotoQuest/Getty Images)

As protection against the influenza virus, men are seen gargling with salt and water after a day spent working in the War Garden at Camp Dix, New Jersey, September 1918. This was a preventative measure against the influenza epidemic that had spread to army camps. (Photo by PhotoQuest/Getty Images)

A nurse at the Corey Hill Hospital refills a water pitcher while wearing a protective mask to protect herself from the influenza epidemic, Brookline, Massachusetts, September 13, 1918. A special camp has been set up there for the Army and Navy members stricken by the flu outbreak. (Photo by Underwood Archives/Getty Images)

Rules to reduce the spread of Spanish flu posting by the US Public Health Service. Cough or sneeze into your mouth with a handkerchief, avoid crowded places, do not spit, do not share the use of cups and napkins. Avoid excessive fatigue. Just contracted the disease into bed and tell your doctor. Typographic poster; Unites States, Washington, DC 1918. (Photo by Fototeca Gilardi/Getty Images)

Scraps with news of the spread of Spanish flu. Front page of the newspaper San Luis Obispo Daily Telegraph (California) and various clippings from local newspapers in which it is the subject of the spread of influenza cases subtitled: ***76 Flu Cases, 11 Pneumonia, 5 Dies***. The Spanish flu pandemic continues to spread in the world. The first confirmed case of Spanish flu was the 8th march 1918. The United States, San Luis Obispo CA, November 1, 1918. (Photo by Fototeca Gilardi/Getty Images)

Women working for the Red Cross make masks during the pandemic flu in 1918. (Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

Doctors, army officers, and reporters wear surgical gowns and masks while making a tour of a hospital to observe Spanish influenza treatment of patients. The poster by E.M. Ashe behind them reads, "Buy Bonds to Your Utmost."

1918, Chicago, Illinois - Inspecting Chicago street cleaners for Spanish influenza. Officials are wearing gauze masks.

Two Red Cross nurses with a person on a stretcher during a demonstration at the Red Cross Emergency Ambulance Station during the influenza pandemic of 1918-1920, Washington DC, 1918. (Photo by Underwood Archives/Getty Images)

Spanish Influenza in Army Hospitals - Masks and cubicles used in USA General Hospital No 4, Fort Porter, New York, 1918. Patients' beds are reversed, alternately so breath of one patient will not be directed toward the face of another. (Photo by PhotoQuest/Getty Images)

Red Cross volunteers during the spanish flu epidemic in the United States in 1918 (Photo by Apic/Getty Images)

A Red Cross nurse wearing a face mask in the United States to help decrease the spread of the disease, circa 1918. (Photo by Paul Thompson/FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Nurses care for the victims of the Spanish influenza epidemic outdoors amidst canvas tents during an outdoor fresh air cure, Lawrence, Massachusetts. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Seattle policemen wearing protective gauze face masks during influenza epidemic of 1918 which claimed millions of lives worldwide. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/National Archives/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images)

The congregation praying on the steps of the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption, where they gathered to hear mass and pray during the influenza epidemic, San Francisco, California. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Demonstration at the Red Cross Emergency Ambulance Station during Influenza Pandemic, Washington DC, USA, National Photo Company, 1918. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

1918: Telephone operater at work with protective gauze mask.

Everyone is getting his flu shots and the mayor of Boston is no exception. Mayor Peters of Boston is shown being inoculated by the doctor for the prevention of Spanish Influenza .

Operators perform a disinfectant mouthwash to combat the flu epidemic in a telephone exchange, circa 1920 in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Keystone-France \ Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

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