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咱屯一华人牙医的乙肝化验呈阳性% b' Y5 Q5 c! V9 x& Z8 H
' q; O2 |( S+ c- b5 \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。
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4 Y7 t+ x* ]8 ~( P; f) }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。3 Q x4 C4 _- c- F: I8 L, ^ h
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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。% D9 w0 H, a/ z, D9 G( {
+ _+ z2 ^! F/ j+ y$ e- Z! R自从2001年，Wong一直在Edmonton实习。( S7 p9 a( k- d6 e2 }$ | N' {
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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。7 I$ ]/ ?" I7 j/ @* M2 D
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“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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Predy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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3 U2 Z5 K$ u5 f. }+ ?3 z) @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。! \, A# h( U1 C+ w' {
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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。9 k3 e: F! p* L; p$ M, z
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- f: h6 a' M3 A4 A6 [- P! aEdmonton dentist tests positive for hepatitis B6 z4 ^% @4 ?$ k; c! o
Risk to patients is very low: health officials) o8 n6 i/ J8 n' T% {; D& e
Last Updated: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 | 5:00 PM MT Comments7Recommend14CBC News
& O2 f0 w# N6 W3 k- H( VPublic health officials are contacting 1,400 patients of an Edmonton dentist after he tested positive for hepatitis B, Capital Health said Tuesday.3 r( f: R6 B' {
3 H5 Z: T K" `2 xPublic health officials are contacting 1,400 patients of Edmonton dentist Dr. Byron Wong after he tested positive for hepatitis B. (CBC) / G$ q: Q6 D/ O
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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Wong 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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"The risk to patients is very small," Dr. Gerry Predy, medical officer of health, told a news conference Tuesday.
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( p' B3 f- t! @( T+ S- kDr. Gerry Predy says the risk of infection to Byron Wong's patients is very small. (CBC)
+ u; Z0 S I+ h+ p- e6 g* N9 W"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."' f' j/ h& J& p- h" A& _
1 c; B" N; b' k& b& }: o0 HHepatitis 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.
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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.# ?8 S w- u. x# O; U7 Y3 B
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Capital 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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