 | A policeman uses his mobile phone while on duty near a entrance (unseen) to the virus control institute at China's Centers for Disease Control that's been sealed off after two workers from the lab were sick with SARS in Beijing Sunday, April 25, 2004. Several hundred of its employees and people with whom the patients came into contact were quarantined in a hotel in Beijing's outskirts, state media said. The board reads 'Scientific health protection, prevent against SARS, early detection, early reporting, early isolation, eraly treatment.' click to open  |
 | A Chinese woman wears a mask at Tiananmen Square in Beijing April 24, 2004. China heightened surveillance of passengers on Saturday ahead of the week-long May 1 holiday, when millions are on the move, after the first reported death from SARS since a deadly outbreak last year. click to open |
 | Infrared images of travelers are seen on a monitor screen upon arrival at Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, Sunday, April 25, 2004 in Taoyuan, 40 kilometers (24 miles) south west of Taipei. The Chiang Kai-shek International Airport started to measure temperatures of all travelers entering Taiwan as part of a campaign to ward off an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) after China reported two cases earlier this week in Beijing and one in Anhui province. Travelers from these two places are required to fill out special health forms and will receive regular phone calls from health authorities. click to open |
 | A medical staff helps her colleague wear a mask before entering the SARS ward to treat a suspected SARS patient at Ditan Hospital in Beijing, April 22, 2004. A spokesman from China's Ministry of Health confirmed on Thursday that one suspected severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) case was reported in China's capital which has started an emergency mechanism to cope with the situation. click to open |
 | A Chinese girl puts on her surgical mask in Beijing to guard against SARS on April 22nd 2004. China has detected a suspected case of the respiratory disease SARS in the capital Beijing, it was reported. click to open |
 | A market stall vendor masks herself while surrounded by cages of animals on sale for human consumption, 15 January 2004 in Guangzhou, where the World Health Organisation (WHO) said January 16th the coronavirus which causes SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) was found in cages housing civet cats at a restaurant where one's of China's recent suspected SARS patients worked. click to open |
 | A nurse sits at the front desk of the No. 8 People's Hospital in Guangzhou where suspected SARS patients are receiving treatment January 13, 2004. SARS first emerged in Guangdong in late 2002 before spreading to more than 30 countries, infecting about 8,000 people and killing nearly 800. click to open |
 | A masked medical worker looks out from a fever clinic at a railway station in Beijing January 9, 2004. Many more suspected SARS cases are likely to emerge because the symptoms match those of common winter diseases, the World Health Organization said Friday as it investigated the latest case to surface in China. click to open |
 | World Health Organization officials, seen here on Jan 10th 2004 in Guangzhou of China, have launched their second investigation this year into the reemergence of SARS in southern China following an earlier probe into the country's first confirmed case of the disease in six months click to open |
 | Doctors of the World Health Organisation (WHO) investigation team collect samples at a wild animal market in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, January 10, 2004. Doctors of the WHO on Saturday searched a restaurant in southern China 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 |
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