A hundred years ago, the world was raging "Spanish flu"

The epidemic of "Spanish flu" — one of the varieties of the flu broke out in the world in 1918 and in 15 months have killed more than 50 million people. Today, when the world is again attacked by a virus, it's time to remember how it was.

California, 1918. "Wear a mask or go to jail!"

The infirmary of the U.S. army in France. In the midst of the epidemic on the front lines of world "Spanish flu" was sick to 40% of the soldiers

Police officers wearing masks on the streets of Seattle, 1918

Red cross workers in Seattle are only in disguise. 1918

The chamber of the naval hospital in California is ready to welcome sailors from "Spanish girl"

The influx of patients to the hospital in Fort Riley, Kansas, 1918

The typist from new York, October 1918

1918. Courts in San Francisco working in the open air to prevent the risk of infection

The service at the Cathedral of the virgin Mary in San Francisco is on the steps to protect parishioners from the virus

School USA during the epidemic have been closed and children were massively involved in charity events, making toys for the orphans and refugees

The 39th infantry regiment on the March in Seattle, 1918

Japanese school girls going to class only in masks

"Spanish flu" in the house

Red cross workers carry a patient "Spanish flu" in a hospital. Saint Louis, Missouri, 1918

A makeshift hospital in Brooklyn for patients "Spanish flu" was opened after the usual hospitals run out of space

Army field hospital, urgently broken in Arkansas for patients "Spanish flu"

Rooms for patients "Spanish flu", in the Walter reed hospital in Washington. December 1918

Telephone operator also worked in masks

Recovering soldiers watching a movie in the cinema room of the hospital. France, 1918

The American army was made compulsory prophylaxis to prevent "Spanish flu". Pictured — soldiers in Dallas get a dose of preventive spray

In some parts of the military in order to prevent mandatory daily gargling with salt water

Nurse red cross volunteers care for the sick in the hall of the municipal Council Auckland was transformed into a hospital

In a quarantine camp in Lawrence of patients treated due to the Spanish flu of fresh air. They say helped

Red cross nurses, who came to Flanders to help soldiers suffering from "Spanish flu", and gas masks in anticipation of a gas attack the Germans. At the same time and from the Spanish flu to fence...

Red cross volunteers in the French trenches

The patient with the "Spanish flu" was brought to the hospital emergency

A makeshift hospital for sick with the "Spanish flu" in Lawrence, Massachusetts

Baseball players in the midst of the epidemic went to the games in masks

The barbers to protect from the virus, also moved to the open air

Lecture in physics at the University stadium in Montana, Missouri, 1919

Nursing teams in Sydney, Australia, to help sick "Spanish flu". April, 1919

People with suspected "Spaniard" comes to a quarantine camp in Wallangra, Australia. 1919

Nurse city hospital Boston in the anti-epidemic masks, 1919

Serbian soldiers being treated for "Spanish flu" in a Catholic hospital in Rotterdam, the open specifically to help the Serbian and Portuguese military. 1919

The reader in a stationary mask. 1919

The funeral of an American sailor who died from the Spanish flu. Arkhangelsk oblast, Russia, 1919

Graves of American soldiers who died from the Spanish flu. Devon, England, 1919

"Keep the bedroom window open for the prevention of influenza, pneumonia and tuberculosis!" — read posters Recombinant League, hung in the bus

Obmerivanie bus antiviral gas. England, March 1920

Friendly conversation during a pandemic. 1919