A woman sick at home with influenza during the Spanish flu pandemic, November, 1918. Original caption: "Her sister had not seen Mrs. Brown for almost a week, and with Mr. Brown a soldier in France, she became so worried she telephoned Red Cross Home Service which arrived just in time to rescue Mrs. Brown from the clutches of influenza." The Spanish flu of 1918 - 1920 was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus.

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