Huang Fu-yuan, the vice superintendent of Mackay Memorial Hospital, who has been working in medicine for 30 years, notes that the encephalitis, pneumonia and meningitis which pediatricians had to deal with 30 years ago have largely been replaced with illnesses caused by viruses: trachitis, enteritis, fevers caused by viral throat inflammations, etc.
行醫將近三十年的馬偕醫院副院長黃富源指出，小兒科門診中細菌引起的腦炎、肺炎、腦膜炎等疾病減少；取而代之的是像感冒引起的氣管炎、輪狀病毒腸炎、喉嚨發炎引起的發燒… … 等疾病。