It was just around this time that the cluster outbreak occurred in Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Kaohsiung, putting that hospital on the verge of being sealed off. Moreover, when news of the cluster outbreak at Chang Gung came out, many patients there snuck away and re-registered at other hospitals, spreading the illness to Kaohsiung Medical University and Tainan County Medical Center.
在此同時，南台灣醫學重鎮──高雄縣長庚醫院──也出現集體感染，情況已達封院邊緣，從長庚「流落」出來四處就診的病患，更造成高雄醫學大學附設醫院及台南縣醫學中心相繼失守。