A 1619 outbreak of plague in France, rooted largely in Paris, led to the first medical mask. As the disease killed some 80 percent of those it afflicted, French doctor Charles De Lorme invented an ...

A young girl was gifted a sizeable check to purchase a new sewing machine and equipment after making 1,200 masks for health care ... Holli Morgan, an 11-year-old girl from Stone Mountain, Georgia ...