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咱屯一华人牙医的乙肝化验呈阳性! [4 ? r6 E; A2 o$ J0 B: x
* t/ y1 Z9 f. U [2 U* v7 u5 e. U* u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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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。8 g: m# q% v2 Y( ^5 d2 j0 O% q
4 x3 R' ]& N O( n" V1 t2 D6 j+ qSkuba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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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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]' z2 Z6 }8 d; U; c4 {/ C; b“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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5 K1 D( n3 x+ N- S1 oPredy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。4 K2 ~7 L0 [1 p3 M
9 T9 n2 R1 d; s; R1 n; q7 w. z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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. P" z# P4 D8 B5 }# K5 ]Edmonton dentist tests positive for hepatitis B
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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.) n3 p5 E8 s' s7 P
* L; C+ z7 J$ O6 ?* n: I7 ^Public health officials are contacting 1,400 patients of Edmonton dentist Dr. Byron Wong after he tested positive for hepatitis B. (CBC)
: c8 W, w( R! |& EThe 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. _& z2 H& h6 l9 P" H- \
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Wong approached the college in February, immediately after he was told of the positive test, Skuba said.0 f" h, g! w6 A" _( H2 _' G' j. X
E1 `4 C/ ~: f: vWong has been practising in Edmonton since 2001.
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2 n8 C% T9 |: ?5 c' @+ e"The risk to patients is very small," Dr. Gerry Predy, medical officer of health, told a news conference Tuesday.( e' p6 ^- V( z6 ~" |) x. ?) m
% v. F/ \. H# uDr. Gerry Predy says the risk of infection to Byron Wong's patients is very small. (CBC) + v% J) ^# C8 V# [& b6 U
"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."4 s% _& N6 O- T A1 e
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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.$ \7 [# J2 F1 Y+ F# {5 H9 @* q
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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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6 u! p0 x; e& }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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