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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。. w* G$ n3 `! k% ~2 ]
" B3 F# J8 k" l* i% w, |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。9 n7 ~2 G3 d. [5 K
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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。5 n" H7 \/ v: y! L' z' ~5 W
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自从2001年，Wong一直在Edmonton实习。
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, E0 P) j5 U4 V+ _% b% M* Y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。: k9 _ h, |+ G* j/ I
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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。”9 y9 q2 h! q/ r. _1 W7 c/ o3 n
: C, g5 N4 I, `/ CPredy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。2 O1 W( @5 v- J
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Edmonton dentist tests positive for hepatitis B1 o# u0 O: k0 Y3 c. a- T
Risk to patients is very low: health officials6 F' l' N- {( _6 o! f9 F m
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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.: t' [% {# b z! ]2 h: ?) d+ u- h% c
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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)
; o$ f$ [5 M' d$ vThe 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." T4 y3 w2 u8 `& W
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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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9 I3 c: {: @1 |( k, k. o& RWong has been practising in Edmonton since 2001.$ }) _/ f* z+ A; h. y' ^5 E$ z( q
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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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+ T6 G( ]) N: e8 ~! d' n& \Dr. Gerry Predy says the risk of infection to Byron Wong's patients is very small. (CBC)
9 M$ M6 E+ Y! ]+ x$ x5 g"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."* q: N* N: }3 T& k2 i9 _! }# W
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Hepatitis 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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C! c: E! K8 z" T/ s0 bOfficials 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.1 z. u2 h) P# W( j
: Y4 C( a8 ~- XCapital 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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