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咱屯一华人牙医的乙肝化验呈阳性
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0 H2 l" |( J2 M( p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。# C( C4 q1 F) n( c
# v/ R1 Y) N( U. c" sAlberta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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' f( t b( c# p+ _" `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。6 i }+ T& W1 y3 D
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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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. U7 a+ R3 F4 k) v: h: j6 e“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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/ n: ?* G0 T8 x/ I, a- t6 Y4 N6 [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。# A# X& a, K# j
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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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) W7 {0 |% V# C% c6 [9 I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。
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2 p% U3 @1 p: _. ]2 vEdmonton dentist tests positive for hepatitis B U. [1 i8 r3 b' y, e/ a
Risk to patients is very low: health officials
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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.9 [! K( E! S8 D/ k4 U( B3 v
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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)
- a# E% s, ~; l- f* LThe 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.* ^5 f" h6 A9 n% J2 s2 l
- C1 @) V) o& _+ [Wong approached the college in February, immediately after he was told of the positive test, Skuba said.0 H+ ?0 Y3 H# c& Q# \4 c
" J3 a: \/ a8 x5 q' |Wong has been practising in Edmonton since 2001." r6 ]0 o$ I/ V6 \' t! w A$ B& ?
9 m, k( J% a' D9 D5 H/ ^"The risk to patients is very small," Dr. Gerry Predy, medical officer of health, told a news conference Tuesday.2 L& P5 }1 I O* h) r
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Dr. Gerry Predy says the risk of infection to Byron Wong's patients is very small. (CBC) 7 z6 `6 W- w4 K7 a& y6 q
"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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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." P: T+ O/ I2 r4 g5 O& b) d
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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.0 s5 u& Z9 J/ r
: k" o! @+ W wCapital 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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