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 | Doctors of the World Health Organization (WHO) investigation team collect samples at a seafood and exotic game restaurant temporarily closed by authorities in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, January 10, 2004. Doctors of the WHO on Saturday searched the restaurant that employed a waitress suspected of having SARS, to find out if she could have caught the virus from civet cats dished up there. click to open  |  | A man walks past the local government's advertisements promoting SARS prevention Monday Dec. 29, 2003 in Shanghai. None of the 42 people quarantined after having close contact with China's first suspected SARS patient in five months has shown symptoms of the disease, a government newspaper said Monday. China announced the suspected case - its first since July - on Saturday and said the 32-year-old man was hospitalized in Guangdong, the southern province where the disease first emerged. click to open |  | Hotel workers join a parade to kick-off Shanghai Tourism Festival September 13, 2003. China is eager to revive its once-booming tourism industry, which was curbed during the SARS outbreak in April. China's tourism revenue is expected to shrink by nearly half this year, the first fall since 1989, due to the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) outbreak, the official China Securities Journal said. The country will earn 276.8 billion yuan ($33 billion) less from tourism in 2003 due to SARS, it quoted a tourism official. click to open |  | SARS Crisis - Mainland China: Nurses look at photographs taken during the SARS epidemic at an exhibition about SARS in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2003. The deadly virus surfaced in southern China in November, infected more than 8,400 people worldwide and killed more than 800 people, mostly in Asia, before subsiding in June. click to open |  | SARS Crisis - Mainland China: Sun Zheng, left, one of Chinese mainland's last two SARS patients, is congratulated by an unidentified nurse before leaving a hospital following his recovery, at Ditan hospital in Beijing, China, Saturday, Aug. 16, 2003. click to open |  | SARS Crisis - Mainland China: Chinese women visit a photo exhibition featuring the fight against SARS in Beijing July 29, 2003. Beijing's last 12 SARS patients have recovered from the disease, official media said, marking an apparent end to the scourge in China where the virus emerged eight months ago before spreading across the world. click to open |  | SARS in Mainland China: Chinese nurses applaud during a ceremony to mark the discharge of China's last two SARS patient in Beijing, China, Saturday, Aug. 16, 2003. More than 800 people around the world died of SARS, most of them in Asia, before it subsided in June. In mainland China, more than 5,300 people were sickened and 349 died of the disease, with more than half of those in the capital, Beijing, the hardest-hit city in the world. click to open |  | SARS in Mainland China: The Chinese ational flag is waved during celebrations in Beijing, June 24, 2003, after the World Health Organization removed Beijing from its list of SARS-infected areas and its travel warning to the capital city. China was winning the fight against the flu-like SARS virus and controlling the illness while maintaining economic growth, President Hu Jintao said July 28, 2003. click to open |  | The Rolling Stones' concert in Shanghai scheduled on April 1, 2003 was eventualled canceled along with the shows in Hong Kong, due to fears over the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) virus which is sweeping Asia. click to open |  | SARS in Mainland China: The World Health Organization's (WHO) Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) team meet with Chinese officials in Beijing on March 28th, 20003 to discuss measures to combat the spread of the respiratory disease. click to open |
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