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Fighting Spanish Influenza
Fighting Spanish Influenza
A patient wears a state-of-the-art flu mask during the Spanish Influenza pandemic which followed the First World War. Estimates of the number of people worldwide who died from the 1918-1920 epidemic range from 20 million to 100 million.
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Feb 27, 1919