Still, the cruel fact set before us is that roughly 1,200 people in Taiwan die every year of tuberculosis-more than from any other infectious disease. Compared to other countries with modern health care systems, Taiwan still has a rather high fatality rate from TB. The vestiges of the "sick man of Asia" label still remain.
話雖如此，然而擺在眼前的殘酷事實卻是──台灣每年有一千兩百人死於結核病，死亡人數居傳染病之冠，而相較於其他醫療現代化國家，台灣的肺結核死亡率仍舊偏高，「東亞病夫」的烙痕隱然留存。