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When I first came to China I hit the disease gradient like a massive concrete wall. (What's the disease gradient? Well germs are constantly mutating so there's new variations of every known disease that haven't reached where you live yet so your body has extra work to fight them off until your immune system figures out their antibodies.) It started as a scratchy throat in the morning and ended by evening with me in hospital with a fever that exceeded 40°C (that's "brain damage is a risk" levels of fever here). The doctors were doing everything in their power to lower that temperature (including even using chilled saline drip) as my body, having its defences weakened by the first little throat-scratching collapsed in the fight against every unknown germ that decided to have a party in me.
That was probably the closest I got to death from disease.