"Panic is what happens when people don't know enough," says Twu Shiing-jer, director-general of Taiwan's Center for Disease Control (CDC). Two hundred people die of AIDS every year in Taiwan, and 1,500 people die of tuberculosis, but these diseases are less newsworthy because everyone's used to hearing about them.
「恐慌來自於不瞭解，」衛生署疾病管制局局長涂醒哲指出，台灣每年有兩百人死於愛滋病，死於結核病的更高達一千五百人，但民眾已「見怪不怪」，媒體也不會投注心力大幅報導。