Other Factors Involved: As for the fact that "the number of cases of many types of communicable illnesses have already greatly surpassed last year's," the Bureau of Communicable Disease Control suggests that "there are other factors involved which are not immediately evident."
對於「今年台灣地區多項傳染病病例數已經超過去年甚多」的事實，衛生署防疫處則表示其中「另有隱情」。