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咱屯一华人牙医的乙肝化验呈阳性+ b/ Z2 a! d- V
3 a5 C. e5 V. b' C6 v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。2 g* ^0 _4 L2 n0 j
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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。
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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。9 C6 A; D9 \. j. g. m
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自从2001年，Wong一直在Edmonton实习。: d7 b- G3 ]# Z6 a
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9 t4 I. z! Y, b3 X8 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。# X; M# G2 i5 w. ^8 L/ m( J4 H
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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。”5 {, Z7 x' s6 B: B1 t
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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。; L! B5 L- K- s: n! u! f5 j2 D* v
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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。0 L0 I8 l- d: {$ o# E
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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。
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Edmonton dentist tests positive for hepatitis B+ I4 Q2 m& h5 v% L7 ]1 o
Risk to patients is very low: health officials
9 V! D/ q! h2 Y8 c eLast Updated: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 | 5:00 PM MT Comments7Recommend14CBC News
' b/ ~0 w. s# t! m# r9 vPublic health officials are contacting 1,400 patients of an Edmonton dentist after he tested positive for hepatitis B, Capital Health said Tuesday.2 s; B3 z/ L) h ?- w
: J9 w/ j5 a# p+ }$ G) n4 F) i. {Public health officials are contacting 1,400 patients of Edmonton dentist Dr. Byron Wong after he tested positive for hepatitis B. (CBC)
& y6 B8 t( X9 @1 ^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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Dr. Gerry Predy says the risk of infection to Byron Wong's patients is very small. (CBC)
$ S/ R8 x' P( u; v/ [" e( W. `% W* S"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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8 ? Q w( f; z2 M/ KHepatitis 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.4 L# N- u# g4 [. f, s
5 w8 n7 D/ h( R( f6 Y. `# cOfficials 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.
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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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