The CDC predicts that with the experience of battling SARS in 2003 under its belt, Taiwan won't panic when bird flu strikes. But due to the H5N1 virus 'high virulence, an expected 5.3 million people will be infected, over 70,000 will be hospitalized, and more than 14,000 will die once the new strain of influenza erupts.
根據疾管局推估，台灣因有 2003 年的 SARS 震撼經驗，禽流感來襲時應不致慌亂，但因 H5N1 病毒毒性極高，一旦引發新型流感，恐將有 530 萬人會遭到感染、7 萬多人住院、1 萬 4 千多人因此喪命。