Photo Shows Unique Mask Worn During 'Spanish Flu' Pandemic According to The Associated Press, "'Spanish' flu is a misnomer, and the strain is theorized to have actually developed in Kansas." ...

Fact check: Why is the 1918 influenza virus called 'Spanish flu'? In the black-and-white image, a sign reading "Wear a Mask or Go To Jail" is pinned to a young woman's coat. She stands next to two ...

As Americans were celebrating victory in World War I in the fall of 1918, the masks on returning troops showed that the U.S. was losing another war against the so-called Spanish Flu.

Pictured: Two women in 1918 in Seattle sit on their front porch holding two cats which have been kitted out with face masks to protect them from the Spanish flu, which griped the world at the time.

The claim: A study co-authored by Dr. Anthony Fauci found Spanish flu victims died from pneumonia caused by mask-wearing. Since the emergence of COVID-19, masks have become a way of life. But for ...

Fauci did not blame mask use for any deaths that occurred during the 1918 Spanish flu. In fact, the paper mentioned in the above-displayed Facebook posts doesn't even mention masks.

A photo taken in 1918 gives us a window into regulations around mask-wearing during the Spanish influenza epidemic.

Five Spanish regions have announced the reintroduction of rules making the use of face masks compulsory in health facilities following a spike in flu and COVID-19 cases over the festive season.

But masks used nowadays are much sturdier than the porous gauze material that people used during the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918. A policeman adjusts a citizen's flu mask in San Francisco in 1918.

The “mask slacker” and the inspector, according to the Oct. 29, 1918 San Francisco Chronicle, were arrested. Nearly 100 others were arrested in the city that same night for not wearing masks.

In 1918, America adopted mask wearing with a greater vengeance than anywhere else in the world. But a century later, it is Asian countries which have remembered the lessons the US learned.