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咱屯一华人牙医的乙肝化验呈阳性9 {3 L- J3 x; i
( X. J% E) y- R) t0 P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。! n, C) I) J# b( x5 l5 R
) W1 y3 t( C; N& a6 V7 N! \3 lAlberta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。1 x2 ~4 |1 U) R0 K% y" Z
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自从2001年，Wong一直在Edmonton实习。* r! O/ ~& r2 q4 n8 W2 ?
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/ J) L0 u4 h5 J% @5 ^ U& T2 r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。) ]5 O$ F8 k5 \8 w$ x* T% p$ g
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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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8 U2 c5 n+ O' L! h* z% Y) U6 W" _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。
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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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6 p5 U; s k: k3 Z2 I7 LEdmonton dentist tests positive for hepatitis B8 i1 ~6 n3 y4 H5 x" C
Risk to patients is very low: health officials
* l1 g2 t, T* zLast Updated: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 | 5:00 PM MT Comments7Recommend14CBC News
8 f2 M/ f( Y/ w8 g+ rPublic health officials are contacting 1,400 patients of an Edmonton dentist after he tested positive for hepatitis B, Capital Health said Tuesday.; }! P6 N) S9 j
' \- N3 i; G- }2 W. z3 x2 N3 s! pPublic health officials are contacting 1,400 patients of Edmonton dentist Dr. Byron Wong after he tested positive for hepatitis B. (CBC)
1 S9 @/ \7 a& {' ]. ~: E3 q4 u 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.
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: ^( j" V% M6 H0 [Wong approached the college in February, immediately after he was told of the positive test, Skuba said.
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3 Z/ L& Q( i0 Z1 E8 U* {" W1 \8 v6 dWong has been practising in Edmonton since 2001.' L# p' s- X8 a8 Y$ I$ M
$ V8 f- `% z% \; E% k"The risk to patients is very small," Dr. Gerry Predy, medical officer of health, told a news conference Tuesday.
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* o' _' f O$ k) k9 c3 BDr. Gerry Predy says the risk of infection to Byron Wong's patients is very small. (CBC)
4 R- v }8 J1 C* G1 C5 q$ x5 h5 b+ f"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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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.
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6 a, D9 X0 ]$ ^, v: |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.# W+ B& g, [" I- a: L- ^6 `4 g
. ]6 y$ f6 p- m3 k @0 V3 x4 BCapital 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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