Flu ward, USA, 1918

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Caption: Flu ward. Nurse attending to a patient on an influenza (flu) ward during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. The pandemic infected one fifth of the world population and killed between 20 and 50 million. Photographed at the Walter Reed Hospital, Washington D.C., USA.

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