According to Ping-ing Li, associate professor at NTU Hospital's department of pediatrics, pneumonococcus, the bacterium associated with pneumonia, is now 80 % drug resistant in Taiwan. "Penicillin used to be 100 % effective against pneumonia, but now we have to use Vancomycin in most cases."
台大醫院小兒部主治醫師李秉穎也指出，台灣的肺炎雙球菌已經有八成以上有抗藥性了，「過去肺炎用第一線抗生素盤尼西林治療，百分之百有效，現在大多要用最後一道防線的萬古黴素了。」