With little experience dealing with epidemics, today's officials, hospitals, and citizens have let their guard down. During the enterovirus epidemic in 1998, there was a major controversy because the government delayed notification of the threat.
長期缺乏疫病經驗，導致官方、醫院及民眾都對周遭的各式傳染病缺乏警覺，民國八十七年腸病毒大流行時，官方就曾一度因為延誤疫情通告而引發軒然大波。