In fact, a report made by the Bureau of Communicable Disease Control in the Department of Health at the end of April this year shows that the number of cases of tuberculosis in Taiwan has in creased by 13 percent over the same period last year. Office Director Chang Yao-hsiung views this resurgence with great dismay.
果不其然，由衛生署防疫處在今年四月底提出的監測報告發現，台灣地區肺結核病例比去年同期增加了百分之十三。