Foul is fair: In the early days of mainland settlement on Taiwan, the island's hot, damp climate long made it a hotbed of plague, cholera, typhoid, malaria and other febrile diseases.
負負得正，瘟神漂白在墾拓初期，高溫多濕的台灣一直是鼠疫、霍亂、傷寒或瘧疾等瘟病的流行區域。