Chen How-young, who convenes the CPC's emergent infectious diseases group, says that it is unprecedented for enterovirus to appear for several years in succession, as it has now in Taiwan. It is known that in the case of those who died, death was caused by the spread of the virus to the brain, and there is now a suspicion that this was connected with the use of antipyretics-fever-reducing drugs.
疾病管制局新興傳染病召集人陳豪勇指出，腸病毒連續幾年發生是史無前例的，目前已知致死案例是病毒跑到腦部所致，而病毒為什麼會跑到腦部？初步懷疑與退燒藥有關。