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咱屯一华人牙医的乙肝化验呈阳性
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! `& m" j4 m" q. ~6 g8 c今天（周二）公共卫生署说，他们正在寻找1,400名病人，因为给这些病人看病的牙医其乙肝化验结果呈阳性。/ w! k) J6 |" \* X5 S0 Y
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Alberta牙医协会与牙医学院主席，Jonathan Skuba博士今天下午在新闻发布会上告诉记者，37岁的牙医，Byron Wong，眼目前已经自动停止了他的实习，正主动配合卫生当局确保能找到所有这些病人。
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Skuba说，今年二月，当Wong被告知自己的乙肝化验呈阳性时，他立刻通知了牙医学院。
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( R, g2 d" ^4 I" T$ y3 M: q自从2001年，Wong一直在Edmonton实习。
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目前看来，病人被传染的可能性很小。卫生署医药官员，Gerry Predy博士在今天的新闻发布会上说。
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/ T" y' ?+ h$ _1 Z4 i/ I“我们对该牙医传染乙肝病毒的危险性进行了风险分析，结果显示，传染的可能性非常小。我们估计其可能性大约在万分之一到时万分之一，可能接近十万分之一。”
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" w+ R; P: v' T6 c0 SPredy说，自从九十年代中期以来，乙肝预防一直是本省各学校免疫工程的一部分，所以20岁以下人群因该不至于被传染。
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由于可能性如此之小，官方甚至曾辩论是否有必要发布一个“公开警告”，但是，最终他们认为应该将情况告知大众。
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近期，首都卫生署将开始接触Wong医生的1400个病人，对他们进行乙肝化验，这需要花费几个月的时间。0 W- `& V4 R# z$ e
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+ Q9 b6 b) I' K& {$ }, |) FEdmonton dentist tests positive for hepatitis B
( K' [1 C* y& m0 R, x$ Q! |Risk to patients is very low: health officials# U" I' X! o" l/ h- n( J9 Y( Y* V
Last Updated: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 | 5:00 PM MT Comments7Recommend14CBC News 3 S; H! v( E9 N) e. H
Public health officials are contacting 1,400 patients of an Edmonton dentist after he tested positive for hepatitis B, Capital Health said Tuesday.
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% U) b" h) `: c. tPublic health officials are contacting 1,400 patients of Edmonton dentist Dr. Byron Wong after he tested positive for hepatitis B. (CBC) ( h! ]/ x) q- f2 W. j9 l# c R9 Q
The dentist, identified as Dr. Byron Wong, 37, has voluntarily stopped his practice, and is co-operating with the health authority to ensure all patients are contacted, Dr. Jonathan Skuba, president of the Alberta Dentist Association and College, told a news conference Tuesday afternoon.
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) ~3 Y/ A4 {% }8 oWong approached the college in February, immediately after he was told of the positive test, Skuba said.
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Wong has been practising in Edmonton since 2001.
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* i7 r: O z* d' Q"The risk to patients is very small," Dr. Gerry Predy, medical officer of health, told a news conference Tuesday.
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Dr. Gerry Predy says the risk of infection to Byron Wong's patients is very small. (CBC)
) V9 R' M) ?( V0 r* e( h"We did a risk analysis of the potential risk of this dentist transmitting the effect to his patient, and the risk is very small. We estimate somewhere 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 100,000, probably close to the 1 in 100,000 figure."
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5 n$ I8 N: p, O4 ^9 w$ Y6 YHepatitis B has been part of the province's school immunization program since the mid-1990s, so most people aged up to the mid-20s should be protected, Predy said.' G/ E3 h [1 R; l5 ^4 s7 V& c+ r5 g
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Officials even debated whether to issue a public warning because the risk is so small, but in the end, they concluded people would want to know, Predy said.6 p, D2 D/ p& I5 c& R
/ }2 a- a1 L4 d9 e( P. ZCapital Health will start contacting Wong's 1,400 patients in the near future to offer them hepatitis B tests, a process that was expected to take a couple of months. |
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