A warm and sunny May day would normally be a profitable and pleasant one for all manner of businesses. But the storm raging over the increasingly widespread epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) has enveloped the entire island of Taiwan in a mist of anxiety and tragedy.
風和日麗五月天，本來是各行各業欣欣向榮的好季節，然而一場越演越烈的 SARS 病毒風暴，卻讓台灣全島籠罩在愁雲慘霧中。