A frightened couple wears masks as they wait at Beijing Railway Station, April 26, 2003. Thousands lined up to leave amid the SARS outbreak, which has killed at least 42 people in the city. Nearly 1,000 more were infected, the Health Ministry reported. All schools and at least three hospitals in Beijing were closed during the week as authorities struggled to contain the deadly virus.
A Taiwanese guard in plainclothes wears a mask to protect himself from SARS as he wipes sweat off the face of an Honor Guard on duty at the Martyrs Shrine, a famous Taipei tourism spot, April 29, 2003. Taiwan is establishing a $1.4 billion emergency fund to tackle the island's outbreak of SARS and to provide aid to Taiwan's tourism and manufacturing sectors, hard hit by the disease.
A young fan, wearing a mask for protection from the SARS virus, reaches out with a glove as Kansas City Royals right fielder Michael Tucker misses a pop fly by Toronto Blue Jays' Vernon Wells during fourth inning AL action in Toronto on April 25, 2003.
Children learning ballet wear masks to protect themselves from severe acute respiratory syndrome, SARS, that has killed more than 133 people and infected 1,543 people in Hong Kong.
A nurse gestures to a passenger, seen on the monitor, after he was cleared of high body temperature by a thermal camera, April 28, 2003, in Taoyuan's Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, south west of Taipei. If a passenger's body temperature hits 38 degrees Celsius, the thermal camera will display green hue on TV screen and he will be checked by medical personnel.
Health care workers wear protective masks as they load a patient into back of an ambulance for transport to St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, Canada, April 24, 2003. Canada's largest city staggered under an alert warning people to stay away because of the SARS outbreak.
A pedestrian wears a gas mask-like protector on a Hong Kong street, April 28, 2003, in an effort to protect himself from being infected with the SARS virus that has killed more than 130 people in the territory.
An Indian family watches from their house as the hospital opposite them admits the city's first SARS victim in Calcutta, India, April 27, 2003.
A visitor from another country, wearing a face mask to protect himself from a mysterious flu-like disease that has killed 22 people in Hong Kong, visits a mainland-Chinese bookstore April 7, 2003. The huge poster on the left depicts the late Communist Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung.
Hong Kong Catholics wearing surgical masks to protect themselves against SARS pray during Mass at Hong Kong's Roman Catholic Cathedral April 6, 2003. SARS has killed at least 89 people and sickened 2,300 in more than a dozen countries.
People wear surgical masks to protect themselves from SARS. Fears of the deadly flu-like disease are keeping many Hong Kong residents from traveling to China's neighboring Guangdong province, as tens of thousands do every year, for Ching Ming festival, a time when Chinese traditionally pay respect to the dead by cleaning their graves and burning incense.
Passengers wear masks while walking out from a flight from Hong Kong at the Incheon International Airport, near Seoul, South Korea. Although South Korea has no patient infected by the disease yet, people are more conscious about health measures since the outbreak of SARS across the world.
An unidentified man wears a protective face mask as a precautionary measure against SARS after arriving at Los Angeles International Airport April 1, 2003.
Kevin Mah and his wife, Diane, from Diamond Bar, Calif., wear protective face masks as a precautionary measure against SARS after arriving at Los Angeles International Airport from Hong Kong April 1, 2003.
Residents wear masks in a train in Hong Kong, in an attempt to protect themselves from SARS. The spread of the deadly flu-like illness has turned Hong Kong into a masked city. Hundreds of thousands of worried residents are going about their business in surgical masks as dealers try to profit from the fears of acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS.
A man wears a protective mask as he carries a bouquet of flowers at Women's College Hospital in Toronto, Canada, March 28, 2003. Canadian health officials said they will have a plan in place to screen passengers on international flights from Toronto for symptoms of SARS, but still planned to allow incoming flights to land without quarantine measures.
A Chinese man with symptoms of SARS receives treatment at a hospital in Guangzhou, southern China, March 13, 2003.
An unidentified official of Malaysia Health Ministry's Disease Control Department reads one of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) leaflets at the ministry in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, March 18, 2003.