History

 
The CDC uses the infographic approach for other infectious diseases, such as polio, to reach a broad audience and make a complex problem more understandable.
 
Red Cross volunteers fighting against the spanish flu epidemy in United States in 1918.
 
Photo of a group of people wearing masks during the 1918 influenza pandemic.
 
Photo of hospital ward filled with polio sufferers in iron lungs.
 
Photo of a woman standing and reading a book to a little girl in an iron lung machine.
 
Newspaper article from the 1918 influenza pandemic describing confrontations at the meeting of an anti-mask group.