1 of 10 View 10 Items National Museum of Health via Associated Press Influenza victims crowd into an emergency hospital near Fort Riley, Kansas, in this 1918 photo. Related Links 80,000 people died of flu last winter in U.S. 6 tips to avoid catching and spreading the flu 100 years later, we’re still not prepared for a flu pandemic For many of us, the flu is a seasonal nuisance that emerges each year as the days grow shorter and people huddle indoors — annoying but not truly threatening. A century ago, however, the flu was much more than a minor inconvenience. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the deadly 1918 influenza pandemic, also known as the Spanish flu, which infected half a billion people (one-third of the world’s population at the time) and killed at least 50 million. This pandemic was so lethal that it took more lives than all the combined military deaths of World War I and World War II, and life expectancy in the United States fell by about 12 years from 1917 to 1918. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons Seattle policemen are photographed wearing masks made by the Red Cross during the influenza epidemic in… Read full this story
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