Chinese butcher waits for customers at empty market in Beijing

A Chinese butcher waits for customers to buy his pork at a normally crowded food market in central Beijing, 28 April, 2009. Hong Kong and China, worst hit by the 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic, stepped up efforts to prevent an outbreak of the swine flu that has killed more than 80 people in Mexico. China banned imports of pork products from Mexico and parts of the U.S. due to the spread of swine flu in those regions. (UPI Photo/Stephen Shaver)