In recent years, scrub typhus, caused by a bacterium, and dengue fever, a viral disease--both formerly confined to outlying islands and the south-- have spread throughout Taiwan. This summer's enterovirus outbreak caused widespread alarm.
近年來，立克次體病原微生物引起的恙蟲病與病毒造成的登革熱，由離島、南部而至北部，已遍佈全省，今夏腸病毒之疫，更造成全國恐慌。