Yan Chih-heng, a nematologist who went abroad to study for his doctorate, says that prevention is now impossible. The infection has reached Wuling, Huisun and Kukuan, and he fears that at this speed, in only a few years the mountain forests in central and southern Taiwan will have been devastated.
研究線蟲、出國取得博士學位的顏志恆說，現在已很難再進行防治了，武陵、惠蓀、谷關，以這樣的速度，沒有幾年，台灣中部山區，恐將面目全非。