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咱屯一华人牙医的乙肝化验呈阳性
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+ ~8 S1 C- Y& x$ W0 `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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& S% F# G: w# @# VAlberta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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9 U5 G! y2 v" [/ h; ASkuba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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$ x( O* Q5 J3 g: Z; G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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9 I8 `4 ^7 o) J2 p5 M# D& T, c/ NPredy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。" T3 H! o& z3 i; M( `* s
2 F! ]6 l+ ~& I, N2 S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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\! F6 u* S \6 w8 X7 I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。' q# H: b$ f% L8 u
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9 n$ a( m+ F, g- ~% ?Edmonton dentist tests positive for hepatitis B% ]& v9 _' W Z
Risk to patients is very low: health officials
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( \0 b5 I( R) H4 D: JPublic 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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Public health officials are contacting 1,400 patients of Edmonton dentist Dr. Byron Wong after he tested positive for hepatitis B. (CBC)
4 q) K2 J; ?- f, [1 H% N" zThe 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.% r; p* [! c8 Y
* d- ]' q2 c' j1 {" mDr. Gerry Predy says the risk of infection to Byron Wong's patients is very small. (CBC) 3 y l J" X+ ^1 t
"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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, F. x& o1 }4 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.
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" |6 k6 ?) M1 e1 h: N$ y: B0 zOfficials 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.! T. L( \& e. o: j
8 ^$ F( Y& k# W3 ]7 ICapital 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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