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咱屯一华人牙医的乙肝化验呈阳性7 E/ E4 Y9 ]) L8 @6 ~" X8 S
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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。. ^( x2 ~: S" f2 I) h: J6 c
2 u+ k4 w4 S) i ^6 aAlberta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。0 E2 A/ n2 x- [$ |
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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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5 b9 @# G4 F) Z: P0 L& ~自从2001年，Wong一直在Edmonton实习。
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! c& q/ a) `' W8 Q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。) W) U3 F% W9 u k2 o
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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。”
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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。; i- T- I; F) r1 l) E3 h
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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。. F0 F* |6 p z( t" p1 @
: L* q! i8 d* k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。4 i" Q! f9 T+ g( @; J3 f% Y
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& g1 _2 j" C$ T/ ~$ oEdmonton dentist tests positive for hepatitis B: m6 E6 |* w& b+ T( L* j
Risk to patients is very low: health officials
$ y2 d. }& M. D9 kLast Updated: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 | 5:00 PM MT Comments7Recommend14CBC News * @5 q8 W. Z' B }0 M; S
Public health officials are contacting 1,400 patients of an Edmonton dentist after he tested positive for hepatitis B, Capital Health said Tuesday.
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; ~5 W( z+ B$ [" i. p4 j( ^Public health officials are contacting 1,400 patients of Edmonton dentist Dr. Byron Wong after he tested positive for hepatitis B. (CBC) ; v5 D* Y! |, T+ |6 f4 a
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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7 Y5 N l( m0 Q3 D7 n4 M& P$ W2 \Wong approached the college in February, immediately after he was told of the positive test, Skuba said.& k5 V' d* G0 }* }. a0 j# S2 e; h+ S- [6 y: c
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Wong has been practising in Edmonton since 2001.
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- o( h9 D& e3 Z; x; y7 J7 H"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)
) W) m5 h. B: f ~' S0 w"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."7 Y! ~: L2 R$ o" s
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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.( g1 o1 ?' I2 n1 O2 x
$ w" R9 D0 i4 g3 d) r$ `8 [1 CCapital 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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