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If it seems that wearing masks is a modern feature, then it is not, because a hundred years ago, in the fight against the Spanish flu epidemic, the public was advised to wear only masks, reports the TV3 program “Bez Tabu”.
Spanish flu pandemic in 1918. (Photo: Science History Images / Alamy / Vida Press)
Inna Gīle, a historian at the Latvian Institute of History, is researching materials on the arrival of the Spanish flu in Latvia and its extent.
Many documents have not been preserved. The disease may not even be documented, as the outbreak of the pandemic overlapped with the time of freedom struggles. The flu is believed to have been brought to Latvia by repatriated refugees or prisoners of war.
So far the first known case in the press has been recorded in Talsi. There is a version that this influence entered through the port of Liepaja, but the flu manifested itself very severely in Riga and Vidzeme. Even then the schools were closed and cultural life suspended.
The poet Fricis Bārda, the artist Jāzeps Grosvalds and others probably died of the Spanish flu. Four infectious diseases broke out in Riga in 1919: typhus, dysentery, cholera and smallpox. Riga was most affected by dysentery, not by the Spanish flu.
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