Taiwan had a public health scare just before Chinese New Year, triggered by a reported case of hantavirus infection in Hualien, and for a while the island's rodent population was subjected to an extermination campaign.
春節前，台灣傳出漢他病毒案例，一時之間風聲鶴唳，人人自危，可憐的小老鼠遭到無情的撲殺。