Summary
In the weeks before I left for my job teaching English in Wuhan, in central China’s Hubei province, I worried about whether I would be a good teacher, how I would cope with spicy Sichuan cuisine every day and even whether Chinese girls would like me. I didn’t, however, give a thought to the possibility that a deadly disease—and the even more invasive rumors that accompanied it—would consume my life so fully that, in the end, I would count masks as I walked down the street, trying to time my breathing so I exhaled as I passed large groups of people in the congested city of eight million.
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Recommended Citation
Hughes, John
(2003)
"The Last Page: the other SARS epidemic,"
Colby Magazine: Vol. 92:
Iss.
3, Article 10.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/colbymagazine/vol92/iss3/10