While inspecting a local community in Hebei Province on May 9,, an expert of the World Health Organization (WHO) shows his identity card to a community staff authorized to inspect all people entering and leaving for suspected SARS cases. A joint working group of the Chinese Ministry of Health and WHO completes a five-day inspection in SARS-affected Hebei Province on May 12 and returns to Beijing on May 13. The WHO expert praises highly local medical staff for the utter devotion to their career and hard-working spirit.

An expert (C) of the World Health Organization (WHO) bids farewell to the medical workers at the Epidemic Disease Hospital of Baoding, north China's Hebei Province, by making a bow with hands folded in front, a typical Chinese etiquette, May 8, 2003. A team of WHO experts made a five-day inspection on SARS infection in the province.

An expert of the World Health Organization (WHO) takes notes from a report on the SARS infection at the Disease Prevention and Control Center of Xinle, in north China's Hebei Province, May 11, 2003. A team of WHO experts made a five-day inspection on SARS infection in the province.

An expert (2nd. R) of the World Health Organization (WHO) visits the No. 4 Hospital of Xinle, north China's Hebei Province, May 12, 2003. The WHO team conducted its first field inspection of monitoring and reporting networks on SARS in the rural areas of Hebei Province from May 8 to 12.

An expert (2nd. L) of the World Health Organization (WHO) visits a town hospital in Xinle, north China's Hebei Province May 12, 2003. The WHO team conducted its first field inspection of monitoring and reporting networks on SARS in the rural areas of Hebei Province from May 8 to 12.

Editor: Liao Ming