Dr. Tsai Ching-yang of Juan Hospital goes further to explain that the illness can reduce the number of blood platelets and affect the functioning of the liver. Several victims have had their paltelet level drop so low that a danger existed of hemorrhaging over the entire body, requiring emergency transfusions and use of coagulants.
阮綜合醫院內科總醫師蔡青陽進一步指出，這些病患除了程度不等的出血外，還並有血小板數量下降、肝功能異常、肝脾腫大、腹水、以及上消化道出血等相當典型的出血性登革熱病症。其中數十名病患甚至因血小板數量降到兩萬以下，而緊急輸血或凝血因子。