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咱屯一华人牙医的乙肝化验呈阳性
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" E, [; g6 F5 B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。
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" d( e1 _7 \4 {5 ]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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1 q1 }2 H0 P; P7 cSkuba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。& w: c6 I ?. M9 E9 L
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自从2001年，Wong一直在Edmonton实习。
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- `) s5 O4 M3 k3 }6 h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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“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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\3 w$ @) h) s, G& ~, a% hPredy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% z& h g+ ^. B9 v
7 n7 n3 u( J) X l) Y" k6 ?% G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。# n6 [ E% `# y( t' x; Q9 X6 C7 C# D
9 u7 _7 {4 p8 n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。$ f% {9 O' _! z6 G% A
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9 d( F2 ? D5 H( `$ R; EEdmonton dentist tests positive for hepatitis B
# W( w$ o" d. z7 nRisk 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.
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7 C( p% \0 j. l6 `. }& oPublic health officials are contacting 1,400 patients of Edmonton dentist Dr. Byron Wong after he tested positive for hepatitis B. (CBC)
4 y+ L" w. z8 U7 j3 CThe 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.$ z' w0 S) v, t. G: g
0 |* I4 P, u. T9 i1 q"The risk to patients is very small," Dr. Gerry Predy, medical officer of health, told a news conference Tuesday.; m, g5 r6 H5 P, f; s' I6 L
4 f5 h# ?# n$ c3 r( q$ v' EDr. Gerry Predy says the risk of infection to Byron Wong's patients is very small. (CBC)
5 ?0 v: n5 v; h E7 i7 m"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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" H' N4 n1 T+ i! T% x6 M. n9 R1 D8 OHepatitis 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.) l; ~2 y1 e0 T0 [! c7 N% W6 z1 ^& t
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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.
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! E; o/ n- P2 n2 ^' mCapital 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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