May 5
Mexico City's major, Marcelo Ebrard, wipes a bus handrail as part of the cleaning campaign of the public transportation system from the affects of H1N1 influenza A or swine flu virus. The virus has had an impact on Mexico's economy of about 2.3 billion dollars, Finance Minister Agustin Carstens said, as he detailed a stimulus package to counter the damage.
Omar Torres-AFP/Getty Images
May 5
A doctor checks patients with symptoms of the H1N1 or swine flu kept in isolation at the National Institute of Respiratory Diseases in Mexico City. The World Health Organisation (WHO) says 1,419 cases have been reported, including 30 who have died from the disease.
Luis Acosta-AFP/Getty Images
May 5
Mexican travelers wearing masks board an chartered AeroMexico plane at the airport in Beijing. The plane is headed to several Chinese cities to pick up dozens of Mexicans quarantined over swine flu fears and others whose travel plans have been disrupted.
Ng Han Guan-AP
May 4
Students wear face masks at the Marco Fidel Suarez school in Medellin. Colombia's Social Protection Minister Diego Palacio announced on May 3 that the country had confirmed its first case of influenza A (H1N1) in a 42-year-old man who lives near the capital city.
Raul Arboleda-AFP/Getty Images
May 4
A hotel guest displays a German newspaper which headline reads "Swine Flu. Virus can't be stopped!" from a room at the Metropark Hotel in Hong Kong. The health department imposed a week-long quarantine on the downtown hotel where a Mexican man stayed, trapping 350 guests and employees inside.
AP
May 4
Workers of the pawn shop Monte de Piedad wear masks as a precaution against swine flu as they wait for customers in Mexico City. Hundreds of people, many of whom have not been able to work for more than a week since the city shut down non-essential businesses, stood in line Monday to pawn items for extra cash.
Gregory Bull-AP
May 3
A member of the health brigade puts antiseptic gel on the hands of a woman inside the metro in Mexico City. The influenza A (H1N1), or swine flu, virus epidemic in Mexico is "in phase of decline" but officials say caution is still needed.
Carlos Jasso-AFP/Getty Images
May 3
Catholic clergymen, one holding a Bible, wear masks as a precaution against swine flu as they enter for the start of a mass at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Mexico City.
Brennan Linsley-AP
May 3
Children play a video game together, as they wear surgical masks to help prevent catching the swine flu, during a church service in Mexico City. The Mexican government continues its efforts to contain the H1N1 virus, more commonly known as the swine flu.
Joe Raedle-Getty Images
May 3
A South Korean health official checks the temperature of a foreign Buddhist monk upon arrival at Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul. South Korea reported a new probable case of swine flu May 3, one day after confirming its first case of the virus in a 51-year-old nun who had returned from Mexico.
Kim Jae-myoung-AFP/Getty Images
May 3
Lorena Balderas, 21, remains under observation in the area where people suspected to have contracted the swine flu virus are treated at the Naval hospital in Mexico City.
Dario Lopez-mills-AP
May 3
Mariachis, wearing face masks as a precaution against swine flu, wait for customers on a boat at the Xochimilco canals in Mexico City. Swine flu extended its reach through Europe and Latin America, with at least five countries reporting new cases on Sunday.
Rodrigo Abd-AP
May 3
A hairdresser wears a mask as a precaution against the swine flu as he works on a teenager's hair in Zipaquira, Colombia. The Colombian government confirmed Sunday the first case of swine flu, a 45-year-old man recently arrived from a sales seminar in Cancun, Mexico. The man is recovering at home in Zipaquira.
Christian Escobar Mora-AP
May 2
A woman wears a mask as a precaution against the swine flu as she sweeps the Metropolitan Cathedral after the morning mass was canceled in Mexico City. Swine flu extended its reach through Europe and Latin America, with at least five countries reporting new cases on Sunday.
Claudio Cruz-AP
May 1
Low-income residents of Iztapalapa, Mexico, look to doctor-staffed pharmacies for care. Angel Flores, 3, with his mother, Veronica Romero, is seen by a doctor after waiting for hours.
Melina Mara-The Washington Post
May 1
Ulises Vladimir Rodriguez Ruiz, 6, waits to be seen by a doctor.
Melina Mara-The Washington Post
May 1
Maria Ursa Gonzalez, left, and Luiz Maria Gonzales have been waiting outside the hospital for the last 10 days while 18-year-old Daniel Mina Gonzalez recovers from the flu. The Gonzalez family comes from El Molino, north of Mexico City. They say they received such poor care for their son back home that they brought him into the city. "The state of the Mexican health care system is very bad," said Luiz Maria Gonzales.
Melina Mara-The Washington Post
May 1
Mexico City, Mexico, has the highest number of suspected cases and confirmed deaths from swine flu. Swine flu victims' families gather outside the hospital.
Melina Mara-The Washington Post
May 1
Patients wait for hours to be seen by a doctor at the crowded hospital.
Melina Mara-The Washington Post
May 1
A woman and her daughter sit outside a pharmacy in Iztapalapa.
Melina Mara-The Washington Post
May 1
Since the swine flu outbreak, medical facilities have become more crowded. This family decides to wait outside away from the people inside the waiting room.
Melina Mara-The Washington Post
April 30
Mexico has the highest number of suspected cases and confirmed deaths from swine flu. Mexican mobile clinics serve crowds of sick people, many of whom are low-income and have no other medical care alternatives.
Melina Mara-The Washington Post
April 30
Nurses and doctors examine the crowds of people, who complain of flu-like symptoms.
Melina Mara-The Washington Post
April 30
A small child stands in line with her father, waiting to be seen.
Melina Mara-The Washington Post
April 30
At one mobile clinic the wait was as long as three hours or more. Marco Osvaldo Armendariz, 4, is treated for a high fever, as other patients wait to be seen.
Melina Mara-The Washington Post
April 30
Jose Jimenez cares for his wife, Gloria Lopez.. They avoid having contact with others for fear of contracting the virus.
Melina Mara-The Washington Post
April 30
At Catedral Metropolitana de la Ciudad Mexico, a man receives the Sacrament during a Catholic mass, and places the wafer in his mouth through his medical mask.
Melina Mara-The Washington Post
April 30
Virgilio Espinoza joins other riders on the subway in wearing medical masks.
Melina Mara-The Washington Post
April 30
Thai Airways workers clean the cabin of an aircraft at Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok.
Chaiwat Subprasom-Reuters
April 30
In Mexico City, people wear surgical masks as they buy coffee and donuts. The government closed eat-in restaurants and many are now selling food and drinks from their front doors.
Joe Raedle-Getty Images
April 30
An Indian pedestrian walks past a notice board advertising a swine flu emergency ward set up at a government hospital in Hyderabad, India. The health ministry said in a statement Thursday that no swine flu cases have been identified so far in India.
Mahesh Kumar A-AP
April 30
An Egyptian medical team examines pigs before they are killed at a public slaughterhouse in Cairo. Egypt began slaughtering roughly 300,000 pigs in the country Wednesday as a precaution against swine flu even though no cases have been reported here, infuriating farmers who blocked streets and stoned vehicles of Health Ministry workers who came to carry out the government's order.
Nasser Nouri-AP
April 30
Reporters in Hong Kong surround a cleaner in the government housing department. Hong Kong is undertaking a huge clean-up operation as a precautionary measure to prevent the spread of swine flu. Two patients were still in isolation after testing positive for the virus, a government spokeswoman said.
Mike Clarke-AFP/Getty Images
April 30
A school bus arrives at Maryland's Folger McKinsey Elementary school on Thursday morning as a host of county officials and reporters gather at the entrance to the school where one student has been tested for possible swine flu.
Jonathan Newton-The Washington Post
April 30
Matt Myers walks his daughters Annie, 10, left, and Julia, 8, to school Thursday morning at Folger McKinsey Elementary school.
Jonathan Newton-The Washington Post
April 29
A government representative distributes surgical masks in Mexico City. Tourists and foreign students hurried to leave Mexico on Wednesday, concerned that flights would be canceled after news broke that the virus claimed its first fatal victim outside Mexico.
Claudia Daut-Reuters
April 29
Commuters wear face masks as a precaution in the subway in Mexico City.
Rodrigo Abd-AP
April 29
Nurse Ivene Basilio Galeano examines Gloria Briseno at a Mexico City mobile health clinic after Briseno complained of flu-like symptoms.
Joe Raedle-Getty Images
April 29
Shoppers in a Mexico City grocery store wear surgical masks to protect them against swine flu. With restaurants closed due to the outbreak, residents are flocking to grocery stores to buy food to cook at home.
Joe Raedle-Getty Images
April 29
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, listens to remarks via teleconference by Dr. Richard Besser, acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, during a U.S. Senate health committee hearing on swine flu in Washington, D.C.
Tim Sloan-AFP/Getty Images
April 29
A doctor tests Arturo Rincon for swine flu by taking a nasal swab at a health post in Mexico City.
Eduardo Verdugo-AP
April 29
Doctors in protective suits work at the Navy Hospital in Mexico City. Mexico is the epicenter of a deadly swine flu outbreak, which has been blamed for hundreds of deaths nationwide. The number of cases under observation has reached the thousands.
Ronaldo Schemidt-AFP/Getty Images
April 29
A University of Delaware police officer stands guard at the Carpenter Sports Building where public health officials have set up a clinic on campus as dozens of students, complaining of a bothersome cough, a scratchy throat and a variety of other flu-like symptoms, trickled in to be checked.
Jonathan Newton-The Washington Post
April 29
Students Kim Lasky, left, and Jessica Ballate leave an on campus clinic after being examined for the swine flu at the University of Delaware.
Jonathan Newton-The Washington Post
April 29
Assistant agrarian technician Katja Meindl looks at some human saliva samples during the analysis for swine flu virus at an institute in Oberschleissheim, Germany.
Michaela Rehle-Reuters
April 29
Workers examine face masks at a factory in Taiwan. The factory has increased production to about 300,000 masks a day to satisfy the growing demand for protection against swine flu.
Pichi Chuang-Reuters
April 29
Passengers wear protective masks during a flight from Guatemala to Mexico. Mexico's government kept the country's public venues locked down as it grappled with the flu.
Eitan Abramovich-AFP/Getty Images
April 29
A warning message is displayed at the quarantine office at Narita International airport in Japan. Japan tightened visa rules for citizens of Mexico and told its own citizens in Mexico to consider leaving the country.
Toshifumi Kitamura-AFP/Getty Images
April 29
A medical officer in Singapore checks the temperature of a man at a passenger arrival ferry terminal as part of precautionary measures against the swine flu outbreak.
Wong Maye-e-AP
April 29
Japanese reporters wearing masks wait to cover passengers arriving at Japan's Narita International Airport from Mexico.
Junko Kimura-Getty Images
April 29
A man carries his coffee past empty tables at the Cafe La Habana in Mexico City. The Mexican government ordered all indoor restaurants to close on Wednesday. Mexico City's mayor said the swine flu outbreak seems to be stabilizing, and that if the death toll keeps tapering off, he will consider easing the citywide shutdown.
Gregory Bull-AP
April 29
A Mexican government worker wears a protective mask as he cleans Chabacano subway station in Mexico City.
Daniel Aguilar-Reuters
April 29
Policemen wearing face masks patrol along Reforma Avenue in Mexico City.
Eitan Abramovich-AFP/Getty Images
April 29
A parent receives information about swine flu at Kilmer Elementary School in Chicago. There has been a confirmed case of the flu at the school which will be closed until further notice.
David Banks-Getty Images
April 28
John Brennan, assistant to the President for Homeland Security, briefs Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius on swine flu, in the Situation Room of the White House.
Pete Souza, The White House-AP
April 28
A teacher in Huaibei, China, shows kindergarten students how to wash their hands as a precautionary measure against swine flu infection. China has vowed to disclose any human cases of swine flu promptly, while state-run newspapers on Tuesday urged officials to be open and avoid the kind of cover-ups that brought panic during the SARS epidemic.
China Daily-REUTERS
April 28
At a travel supply store in Tokyo, Nobuo Murai attends to a customer looking for masks and goggles. The store hurriedly rearranged the shelf earlier in the day to offer items that are normally sold at the healthcare department for overseas travelers. The sign reads: Goods to block swine flu.
Koji Sasahara-AP
April 28
A technician works inside a testing laboratory at the National Center of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases in Sofia, Bulgaria. World governments and businesses announced new steps on Tuesday to try to slow the spread of a new strain of swine flu that has killed up to 149 people in Mexico and threatens to become a pandemic.
Stoyan Nenov-REUTERS
April 28
A pharmacist walks past a package of Tamiflu, an anti-influenza medication, in Paderborn, western Germany. Europe braced for more swine flu outbreaks after cases were confirmed in Spain and Britain, and as authorities warned against travel to Mexico.
Philipp Guelland-AFP/Getty Images
April 28
Dr. Shimoni Tzvi is helped into a protective suit at Laniado hospital in the coastal city of Netanya, Israel. The Israeli Health Ministry on Tuesday confirmed the country's first case of swine flu, saying a 26-year-old man who recently returned from Mexico had contracted the virus. Hospital officials said he has fully recovered.
Dan Balilty-AP
April 28
South Korean quarantine officers try to take samples from a baby who arrived from the United States at Incheon International Airport.
Pool-Getty Images
April 28
An employee of Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche checks empty capsules before they go onto the filling line for Tamiflu. Roche Holding AG said WHO has enough of the firm's anti-flu Tamiflu stockpiled to treat up to 5 million people who come down with the new strain of swine flu.
Christopher Gemuender-AP
April 27
A quarantine officer monitors travelers with a thermographic device at an arrival gate in Bangkok's main airport, in an attempt to halt the spread of swine flu.
Nicolas Asfouri-AFP/Getty Images
April 27
A member of the animal disease department disinfects a pig farm in Taiwan. Many countries have halted pork imports from the U.S. and Mexico, where the flu has killed more than one hundred people, but Taiwan's health minister urged his countrymen not to over-react.
Sam Yeh-AFP/Getty Images
April 27
A researcher examines a sample of pork imported from Mexico at the National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service in South Korea.
Yonhap-Reuters
April 27
Health officials check passengers from Los Angeles at the arrival hall of Malaysia's airport.
Lai Seng Sin-AP
April 27
Residents wear surgical masks as they exit the subway in Mexico City. Mexico's government is urging people to stay home if they have any symptoms of the virus.
Miguel Tovar-AP
April 27
Two women wearing surgical masks exit a supermarket in Mexico City. Mexico's government is ordering schools closed nationwide.
Gregory Bull-AP
April 27
A woman carries a box of face masks that she purchased from a pharmacy in Los Angeles. U.S. health authorities have confirmed cases of swine flu in country.
Mark Ralston-AFP/Getty Images
April 27
A newspaper headline warns against the flu on a downtown street in Hong Kong. Chinese authorities said the government hopes to develop a quick test for the flu that will return results in four to six hours, instead of current tests that can take three days.
Vincent Yu-AP
April 27
A staff member walks over a sign reminding staff to wash their hands as a precaution when leaving wards at a hospital in Singapore.
Vivek Prakash-Reuters
April 27
Canadian tourists, about to board a plane back to Canada, put on surgical masks as they walk inside Mexico City's international airport.
Reuters
April 27
Veractect's Verasight Global, an interface that identifies and tracks emerging civil unrest events around the world, tracks swine flu-related events at the company's Kirkland, Washington, offices.
Kevin P. Casey-AP
April 27
Scientist Isabell Wendel infects chicken embryos with the swine flu virus at the Virology Institute of the Marburg University in Germany.
Thomas Lohnes-AFP/Getty Images
April 27
Pilots wearing masks arrive at Barajas Airport in Madrid. On Monday, Spain became the first nation outside North America to confirm a case of swine flu.
Arturo Rodriguez-AP
April 27
A woman wears a mask to ward off the new virus on a bus in Mexico City.
Alfredo Estrella-AFP/Getty Images
April 26
A masked Edison High School student leaves New York Hospital Queens after being diagnosed with the flu. According to his guardian, he will await test results to determine if he has swine flu.
Louis Lanzano-AP
April 26
Director of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and Press Secretary Richard Gibbs assured Americans that health officials are taking all appropriate steps to minimize the impact of the outbreak.
Pablo Martinez Monsivais-AP
April 26
Masked women pray in Mexico City.
Dario Lopez-mills-AP
April 26
Riot police walk past a university soccer stadium in Mexico. Officials canceled public activities and health workers are screening travelers to curtail what experts fear could become a global epidemic of swine flu.
Gregory Bull-AP
April 26
A street musician wearing a surgical mask plays in a square at the Coyoacan neighborhood in Mexico City.
Enric Marti-AP
April 26
A woman wearing a mask sits inside the subway at the Pino Suarez station in Mexico City. Keiji Fukuda, acting WHO assistant-general for health, security and the environment, says the swine flu virus could mutate into a "more dangerous" strain.
Alfredo Estrella-AFP/Getty Images
April 25
A couple wearing masks kisses at the Historic Center in Mexico City. Health officials say much of humanity may have little or no immunity against the swine flu virus.
Alfredo Estrella-AFP/Getty Images
April 25
A soldier hands out masks in Mexico City.
Alfredo Estrella-AFP/Getty Images
April 24
Mexico's Health Secretary Jose Cordova speaks to the public. People are advised to seek medical attention if they suffer from symptoms including a fever of more than 100 degrees, body aches, coughing, a sore throat, respiratory congestion and, in some cases, vomiting and diarrhea.
Eduardo Verdugo-AP
April 25
Masked pharmacy workers help customers in Tijuana. Unlike Mexico, where the swine flu has killed dozens of people, cases in the United State have so far been mild. U.S. health authorities can't yet explain why.
Sandy Huffaker-Getty Images
April 24
A couple wearing surgical masks sits on the subway in Mexico City. Soldiers and health workers are patrolling the capital looking for possible flu cases.
Miguel Tovar-AP
Gallery Credits:
Photo Editors, Producers Alison Klein, Stephen Cook
Text Editors Robin A.Webb, Peter Cox, Liz Heron
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