View Masks Spanish Flu Canada Pics. Officials rushed through laws requiring people to wear masks in public. However, we're not entirely convinced that this cat is also wearing a mask.

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(cnn) when the novel coronavirus pandemic hit asia, people across the region were quick to wear masks, with while origin theories about the 1918 virus still abound, it was assigned a country specific name: Provinces in canada and many american cities even enforced wearing masks in public (in the u.s. Health officers as well as police officers were empowered to order people to wear masks.

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An expert on the spanish flu in australia says a widespread rejection of face coverings during the 1919 epidemic was what caused a second wave. From the earliest recognition that a more deadly form of influenza was spreading quickly in fall 1918, us public health authorities recommended masks for doctors, nurses, and anyone taking care of … Should canada do the same? The outbreak began in 1918, during the final months of world war i previously undiscovered records linked the flu to the transportation of chinese laborers, the chinese labour corps, across canada in 1917 and a street sweeper in new york wearing a protective mask.