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咱屯一华人牙医的乙肝化验呈阳性: {% a2 [) z: h
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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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5 N4 [5 W0 |8 P! _/ @) k9 RAlberta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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( I* D& k" j+ V/ M自从2001年，Wong一直在Edmonton实习。7 l! Z' P4 x }0 f& U
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l) Z. n+ }, V2 V2 T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。1 r. s6 L' D1 v; ~) I" O7 u
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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。”# X2 m! V! U. b4 \2 O' a
* D$ S6 z/ d5 `; |; sPredy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。
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4 x( P2 J1 S3 b! Y" u+ b0 Q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。5 w% v8 g2 G0 S; ?8 I" B$ S7 S- C
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9 C) D+ {6 m8 s4 l7 \/ w uEdmonton dentist tests positive for hepatitis B
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% I/ o& q' J8 f' \( P# t9 P/ gLast Updated: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 | 5:00 PM MT Comments7Recommend14CBC News `. x! t: [1 w' d, [* _& Q
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 O; X4 x0 s& w! e, pPublic health officials are contacting 1,400 patients of Edmonton dentist Dr. Byron Wong after he tested positive for hepatitis B. (CBC)
1 m- g! ^0 r+ a% B% T( k: W" ~( BThe 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.' l% l! R9 ~( [0 ^9 }' o1 Y
" j( ^& i" g; n! k& L* I1 EWong 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 2001.9 p! }& P1 \/ W# s
/ m8 Z7 }! _' f"The risk to patients is very small," Dr. Gerry Predy, medical officer of health, told a news conference Tuesday.
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0 ^# z' A) o7 g4 Q& JDr. Gerry Predy says the risk of infection to Byron Wong's patients is very small. (CBC) 4 A, u1 a3 i# V& g+ u) p; N
"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."6 B4 F7 m$ g6 v5 n. v
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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.8 D% r- `2 _) q4 J4 i9 d
- T3 \9 _7 B' k$ ?7 V$ MOfficials 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.: [' c$ x! V& E4 l
, T# a" V8 U6 O( X' x$ OCapital 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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