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咱屯一华人牙医的乙肝化验呈阳性
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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。6 x2 @3 v0 E% X9 w
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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。! K* d- D0 t7 b' v
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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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自从2001年，Wong一直在Edmonton实习。. m& d$ m- I _4 c) B
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5 M9 H( y2 ^, B4 o1 F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。- s$ o4 ^: Y* l2 x) Y5 c
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8 y4 e2 O( f! `“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。”6 v8 t! u9 A! M5 f9 e6 R- L
; `% H3 v B, U; P" K; o) }' f9 GPredy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。5 Q& z( g+ f7 ]5 B6 P% ]0 S5 f
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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。* J2 j6 j3 L* r- J
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Edmonton dentist tests positive for hepatitis B
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Public health officials are contacting 1,400 patients of an Edmonton dentist after he tested positive for hepatitis B, Capital Health said Tuesday.% a+ W0 Q& d5 M) m1 Z
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Public health officials are contacting 1,400 patients of Edmonton dentist Dr. Byron Wong after he tested positive for hepatitis B. (CBC)
, J T5 W* K9 F) `" EThe 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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Dr. Gerry Predy says the risk of infection to Byron Wong's patients is very small. (CBC)
9 A% N2 s R9 S# e8 f4 @"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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1 U+ Q# C8 c; m) i# D- f0 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./ |5 U4 E3 H8 K) O& u* X
) g$ Z0 g W. D- l& MOfficials 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. } ^5 L/ @; D2 p# {% `
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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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