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咱屯一华人牙医的乙肝化验呈阳性& W7 W2 u7 B3 v* b3 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。
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# h* A5 p8 O# N2 @& XAlberta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。
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! r& P/ `0 @0 F+ Z3 N ~, c自从2001年，Wong一直在Edmonton实习。: y1 b- s1 |6 y$ z7 z/ p
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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。# f, v( [4 X; x4 }0 R1 V
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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 H" S! J) p m: _4 Z
$ D: E- s& w! H0 i' J6 d8 gPredy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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& @" ?3 v; U4 ^3 L6 d) c0 d3 t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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. V4 O( W) K" a+ v; d. w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( \, ~$ {$ Y! B! y& Y2 g. X7 y3 w
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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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1 ]& j$ u0 \8 j. DPublic health officials are contacting 1,400 patients of Edmonton dentist Dr. Byron Wong after he tested positive for hepatitis B. (CBC)
/ u! d: Q9 a8 [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./ T" p' F6 d, B) @$ u* |% u
0 d Q7 p/ _+ J+ F( @Wong has been practising in Edmonton since 2001.& f j' C2 k( |7 Q4 S
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"The risk to patients is very small," Dr. Gerry Predy, medical officer of health, told a news conference Tuesday., T, L4 _- h8 Q& o. @2 T1 ]
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Dr. Gerry Predy says the risk of infection to Byron Wong's patients is very small. (CBC)
" P8 s1 b* e. C4 B8 y"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."3 D. W4 R2 s8 t+ D2 F
0 W" U( \+ m& @$ a. g* gHepatitis 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 C6 m8 @; `* h7 N$ ^1 m+ UOfficials 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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