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咱屯一华人牙医的乙肝化验呈阳性
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( I# Y& N% a- o" N& C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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7 S( t; h1 ?7 | `- B8 h* k" `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。7 T+ u7 O ?6 l2 M
2 D8 R0 _ N% @4 p+ RSkuba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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4 ~- N9 s( S. u) V9 a/ O4 f自从2001年，Wong一直在Edmonton实习。
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0 \$ F+ J# o$ N E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! F. k$ T' k1 f' W3 y
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9 ^' b$ I, X4 _“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。”; ~9 I) S: H. S0 ?7 _" ^2 \
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Predy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。( t4 B7 ^5 |3 x( G, }
- f A+ m1 P+ R7 B* F. N& a1 ]2 t2 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。8 ` g# q" d" v) W
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' w7 X, [! Z5 t) m9 d$ b/ {Edmonton dentist tests positive for hepatitis B: m# A1 L4 j( {+ \. s; t
Risk to patients is very low: health officials/ M9 ?$ l/ K' P" n2 B& a
Last Updated: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 | 5:00 PM MT Comments7Recommend14CBC News
! W* a, |# E5 WPublic 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)
0 s! }- w+ Y# B2 mThe 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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3 P- y- [3 g# {6 NWong approached the college in February, immediately after he was told of the positive test, Skuba said.
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* K, n1 N# a% S- R$ D/ D: V6 pWong has been practising in Edmonton since 2001.$ [3 }& H j0 l& r$ F
' z. b2 j2 |$ J) }- z"The risk to patients is very small," Dr. Gerry Predy, medical officer of health, told a news conference Tuesday., G+ X, }$ i2 g+ @6 ?5 w
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Dr. Gerry Predy says the risk of infection to Byron Wong's patients is very small. (CBC)
+ k3 r9 V: b7 L+ ~2 _6 U) ]6 V8 G3 Q"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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1 q( y8 w) O% }2 J7 NHepatitis 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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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.- [: L% m. G% R, y. I/ R' `
4 g+ q7 f0 H# k4 F1 r, UCapital 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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