Gallery: Swine Flu

 

Swine flu photos from around the globe

 
January 12, 2010 12:38 PM
 
 
 
A group of Chinese children accompanied by their parents get treatment for H1N1 at a hospital in Hefei, east China's Anhui province on January 8, 2010.
 

A group of Chinese children accompanied by their parents get treatment for H1N1 at a hospital in Hefei, east China's Anhui province on January 8, 2010.

Photograph by: STR, AFP/Getty Images

 
A group of Chinese children accompanied by their parents get treatment for H1N1 at a hospital in Hefei, east China's Anhui province on January 8, 2010.
A passenger on Beijing's subway wears a mask on December 16, 2009. China's official swine flu death toll stood at 53 as of mid-November, despite the first cases being reported in the spring, but has since soared to more than 440 reported fatalities, with half of those in the past two weeks.
A woman wearing a face mask walks past a Christmas tree displayed south of Tiananmen Square along Qianmen Dajie, one of Beijing's oldest, and recently renovated streets, on December 15, 2009.
A woman passes in front of graffiti in Beijing. China's official swine flu death toll has tripled in the past two weeks after the government ordered more accurate reporting of fatalities amid suspicions of a cover-up.
A Muslim pilgrim wearing a protective mask against H1N1 sits next to other pilgrims as they wait to board their plane bound for the Saudi holy city of Mecca at the Rafiq Hariri International Airport in Beirut on November 19, 2009.
A student receives a free H1N1 vaccine at a hospital in southwest China's Chongiqng municipality on November 18, 2009. China has ordered more accurate reporting of swine flu deaths after a doctor renowned for helping expose the scale of the 2003 SARS outbreak claimed the true number of fatalities was being covered up.
A couple walk down a street in Kabul on November 3, 2009. The Afghan government has ordered the closure of all educational institutions for a period of three weeks due to the sudden rise of H1N1 flu cases and after the first death from the virus last week.
Priska Speck holds 11-month-old Liam Stephanson as he reacts to his shot at the H1N1 flu clinic at Tom Brown arena in Ottawa on Thursday.
Extra cleaning is done on doors and windows where students touch as a precaution to prevent the H1N1 virus in elementary schools in the Lester B. Pearson School Board of Montreal.
A child is restrained as he receives a nasal spray during a vaccination clinic held by Montgomery County Health and Human Services for the H1N1 virus on October 9, 2009 at the Dennis Avenue County Health Center in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Indian Sikh pilgrims and Pakistani travellers fill in medical information forms about swine flu at immigration at the Attari International Railway Station, between India and Pakistan, about 35 km from northern Indian city Amritsar, on October 12, 2009. The Indian government has sounded a high alert for swine flu at all international entry and exit points.
Hundreds of thousands of Muslims perform the early morning Eid al-Fitr prayer at the Masjed Al-Haram grand mosque in the Saudi holy city of Mecca on September 20, 2009. Arab countries have stepped up efforts to combat swine flu ahead of the hajj, fearing the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca could provoke outbreaks despite reassurances from Saudi Arabia.
A doctor checks a performer's body temperature as part of the routine precautions against H1N1 flu on September 25, 2009 in Beijing, China. The performers from Ansai County of northwest China's Shaanxi Province will perform the folk waist-drum dance during China's 60th anniversary celebration performance at the Tiananmen Square on October 1, 2009. The grand celebrations to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China are set to include a military parade and mass pageant consisting of about 200,000 citizens in Tiananmen Square on October 1.
Students in Linyi, east China's Shandong province on September 9, 2009. China faces a grim situation in containing the H1N1 strain of flu, as schools start up again and the number of domestic cases, as well as clusters of cases, rises, China's Minister of Health says.
A child washes his hands with antibacterial hand gel, on August 28, 2009, at the Sainte Marie Institute, in Caen, northwestern France. Millions of schoolchildren are preparing to return to school in the next two weeks, with concerns that the H1N1 virus could spread easily between classrooms.
A worker hangs a turkey at a processing plant in La Calera, 125 km south of Santiago, on August 24, 2009. Chilean authorities have detected H1N1 (swine flu) in turkeys.
Indian schoolchildren wearing protective masks stand in a queue outside a school in Bangalore. The number of people to die from swine flu in India rose to nine, health officials said, as the government called for calm and people flocked to public hospitals for tests. The latest to die of the (A)H1N1 virus were an aged lady in India's financial hub Mumbai, and an eight year-old girl in the western Indian city of Vadodara.
Beijing police officers step out of the arrival terminal at the airport in Beijing on July 3, 2009.
A student wearing a protective face mask leaves a school building following a swine flu outbreak in Kuala Lumpur on June 22, 2009.
Members of civil protection wear masks during an exercise drill to prepare for the possibility of a pandemic of swine flu, officially known as H1N1, on June 24, 2009, at the Chenove town hall, eastern France.
Photographer Brendon Radke wears a face mask to defend against swine flu during the round 13 NRL match between the Gold Coast Titans and the St George Illawarra Dragons at Skilled Stadium on June 8, 2009 on the Gold Coast, Australia.
A street vendor wearing a face mask and a bib with an anti swine flu virus (influenza A, H1N1) logo sells masks in San Salvador, El Salvador on June 4, 2009.
A passenger watches from the deck as the P&O Cruises ship 'Pacific Dawn' docks in Sydney, Australia after cutting short her Great Barrier Reef voyage following a Swine Flu scare on board. The 2,000 passengers left aboard were all allowed to leave the ship after they were given the all clear following an outbreak onboard, where three crew tested positive for the virus.
A child installs cardboard cutouts representing pigs during a demonstration on swine flu, officially know as Influenza A (H1N1), outside the World Health Organisation (WHO) headquarters on May 27, 2009 in Geneva.
Chinese health authority employees check passengers arriving in Shanghai from Germany for elevated temperatures on May 27, 2009.
A commuter wears a mask at a subway station in Taipei on May 25, 2009. Taiwan heightened its level of vigilance as the health authorities reported three more confirmed swine flu cases, bringing the island's total infections to nine.
Japanese elementary school students and a guard wear masks as a precaution against the influenza A virus during a tour at the upper house of the Parliament in Tokyo.
A portable thermographic device checks the body temperatures of Japanese football club team Gamba Osaka fans prior to a match in the first round of the AFC Champions League against South Korea's FC Seoul at the Expo Stadium in Osaka on May 20, 2009. The number of swine flu infections in Japan rose to 232 on May 20, most of them school students, as the outbreak spread to a third western prefecture, officials said.
Staff sort out information for visitors at Taipei's popular National Palace Museum on May 20, 2009. Taiwan's health authorities reported the island's first confirmed case of swine flu, in an Australian doctor who arrived by plane from Hong Kong earlier in the week.
Beach chairs sit empty on a Cancun beach, May 12, 2009. Hotel occupancy has sunk across the country due to the swine flu (influenza A, H1N1) crisis, and 25 hotels have temporarily closed in and around Cancun, local officials say.
A body temperature scanner stands at the entrance to Chengdu airport in China's Sichuan province on May 13, 2009. China has ramped up efforts to contain swine flu in anticipation of a second suspected case on the mainland as the number of infections worldwide soared past the 5,000 mark.
A face mask is pictured at a security gate at the Budapest Ferihegy International Airport on May 11, 2009 as Hungarian health officiers are increasingly controlling people arriving from North and Central America for symptoms of the swine flu (influenza A, H1N1). Hungary has not reported any confirmed cases of the flu.
A Mexican student walks to class wearing a face mask at the Faculty of Medicine in the Mexican Autonomous University in Mexico City on May 7, 2009. Mexico's universities and high schools re-opened Thursday in a further lifting of a week-long shutdown to stop the spread of swine flu.
A woman walks past a neighbourhood billboard raising swine flu (influenza A, H1N1) awareness on May 8, 2009 in Beijing.
A Mexican soldier stands guard next to humanitarian aid sent by China at a military facility in Benito Juarez International airport, Mexico City on May 5, 2009.
Humanitarian aid sent by South Korea arrives at Benito Juarez International airport in Mexico City on May 5, 2009. The economic impact of swine flu (influenza A, H1N1) is estimated to be approximately 2.3 billion USD, Finance Minister Agustin Carstens says.
Mexican Navy soldiers wearing masks watch as airport staffers unload humanitarian aid sent by South Korea at Benito Juarez International airport in Mexico City on May 5, 2009.
A Metrobus employee cleans one of Mexico City's stations as part of a public transportation cleaning campaign to prevent further spread of the swine flu virus (influenza A, H1N1).
A postman delivers leaflets containing information about swine flu and how to prevent its spread to homes in Cromarty, Scotland on May 5, 2009.
An unidentified Mexican citizen is embraced by a friend at the Mexican Embassy in Beijing on May 5, 2009 as Mexico prepared to repatriate dozens of nationals, some quarantined in China under controversial swine flu measures.
 
 
 
 
 

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