In the three months from May to July, the enterovirus outbreak caused 300 children to be hospitalized, and led to over 50 deaths. Ho Mei-shang says this is no less serious than most historical epidemics of diseases such as cholera, which people used to blanch at the mere mention of before the advent of vaccines.
由五月到七月短短三個月，腸病毒導致三百多個孩子重症住院、五十多人因而死亡，何美鄉指出，許多過去聞之色變的傳染病，如霍亂，在沒有疫苗前，危害的情況也是如此。