spanishflu

9 photos tagged spanishflu, from 4 members of Flickr Commons.

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1918

2009

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The last upload was February 2020.

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M Birchfield said:
The boys were first cousins. Don Hoover’s father, Frank Hoover, was a professional photographer. Don’s three year old brother died from the flu and pneumonia in February 1919. Joe Sistrunk sold the weekly paper “Grit,” and he and Don in this photo are going out to sell papers. [notes from Martha Birchfield, great-niece of Joe Sistrunk; original photo from Futch family archives provided to Mrs. A. Morris who began the Fla. Photo Archives at FSU.]
mikescottnz said:
Just over a century later we have been wearing masks again with the corona or covid virus going around the planet in 2020
jenny.morros said:
Amazing history
Jeanne said:
it feels weird to look at this picture knowing that today we have to all wear masks again...
Bilal Bawab said:
Amazing photograph!! and the history repeat it self.. after a century

Wayne Hill said:
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mikescottnz said:
History repeats with the new swine-avian-human flu' of 2009 , Mexican origin. That 1917-19 global 'Spanish influenza' killed many in N.Z, several thousand had a burial-memorial in Waikumete Cemetry , West Auckland .A third of the population of W.Sa'moa ,thousands, were lost from transmission from a sailing ship from NZ.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation said:
Maybe this design will make a come back with the swine flu
Leo Zhu said:
Interesting shot.It is attractive.
Margaret Donald said:
Very timely upload.
juliatessler3 said:
amazing!