"In all the major epidemics in the past, things never got so chaotic as during this year's enterovirus outbreak," says Chen Hao-yung, head of the virology section at the National Institute of Preventive Medicine (NIPM). Even the major polio epidemic of 1982, in which there were over 1000 cases of disease and 98 deaths, did not cause such turmoil as this year's outbreak.
「歷年來幾次傳染病大流行，都沒有今年腸病毒來得亂」，衛生署預防醫學研究所病毒組組長陳豪勇指出，民國七十一年爆發的小兒麻痺大流行，一千多名病例中，死亡人數高達九十八人，也都沒有像今年這樣人心惶惶的。