Nonetheless, Lee is optimistic. Taiwan is, after all, an island, which means that if we eliminate the sources of the disease, we eliminate the disease. In fact, Taiwan's last case of FMD was detected more than four years ago on 2 February 2001.
但李金龍有信心，海島台灣一定做得到，只要先把內部病源清除，事實上，台灣口蹄疫的最後一個病例出現在 90 年 2 月 2 日，目前已經 4 年沒有出現新病例。