A flu pandemic conjures up images of streets and buses full of people going about their business with masks covering the lower half of their faces. But how useful would those devices actually be ...

This is what they looked like back then. Mask orders were part of the last pandemic - the Spanish Flu outbreak in 1918. The first cases of the Spanish Flu showed up in March 1918 in Kansas.

NORFOLK -- One common sight during flu outbreaks is images of people wearing masks. Masks are the most popular accessory for people trying to protect themselves from the swine flu. Next up in ...