As Cheng-kuang Shaw points out, around 90 % of people in Taiwan have been infected by hepatitis B, and 20 % are carriers of the disease. Since the probability of finding a donor with matching bone marrow is already so low, doctors simply cannot afford to exclude hepatitis B carriers.
蕭正光指出，台灣有百分之九十的人得過Ｂ型肝炎，有百分之二十的人是 B 型肝炎帶原者，在骨髓相符機率這麼低的情況下，我們實在沒有條件拒絕 B 型肝炎帶原者捐贈骨髓。