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咱屯一华人牙医的乙肝化验呈阳性
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- G5 f6 @* q) Y( d8 _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。( e, m& K* N$ J6 f+ H
8 h- v; j% v, qAlberta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。- s" u" j! f! I; S% c
" `. d6 o* S* z8 N6 ]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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4 c2 i0 V! r$ ?- X( t自从2001年，Wong一直在Edmonton实习。( U8 F; s5 A4 n6 d- i/ |' W: y. |' B
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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。4 ?7 D) O0 g9 Y& z1 ~
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5 p6 l$ T' |! N$ U4 d! d“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。”' y- g7 n+ Y7 ^' W
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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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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。$ I6 ^' D. b1 Q! \$ g4 E% n0 T9 K( F
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+ Y6 A# \1 R+ V( ?7 ^6 \& L( h1 rEdmonton dentist tests positive for hepatitis B/ E7 a3 o4 t3 X' f! }
Risk to patients is very low: health officials& q$ j0 x L) @7 q+ T/ P
Last Updated: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 | 5:00 PM MT Comments7Recommend14CBC News
4 Q" m/ K0 u g9 G- FPublic health officials are contacting 1,400 patients of an Edmonton dentist after he tested positive for hepatitis B, Capital Health said Tuesday.' p* P/ E8 g2 r- p0 c3 h
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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)
: M5 T x1 C* |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.7 v: t1 U0 c+ P, m7 S
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Wong has been practising in Edmonton since 2001.; M/ n3 N2 j; x
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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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Dr. Gerry Predy says the risk of infection to Byron Wong's patients is very small. (CBC) , U- P9 ]" }$ y! \5 C
"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."8 ]# P# S: R) x: l% m1 {' R
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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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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.( r6 \* d: x3 O+ a
6 ]# O% h( B& X& e& I8 t; ]8 @7 dCapital 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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