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咱屯一华人牙医的乙肝化验呈阳性
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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 @# Q. v9 g C; |" A& dAlberta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。3 c' `( @) M- w9 p( w3 ?
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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。% r; j& Y" V. i
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自从2001年，Wong一直在Edmonton实习。
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- a8 \8 c; {0 m% ~7 C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。. e) @$ P5 K5 v0 e9 v8 W z! j
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' ?, P* {: W, b5 h: s* X“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。”& ~3 w4 m/ B$ R6 l/ H
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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。
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" [2 Z/ [) e& A0 ?4 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。
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Edmonton dentist tests positive for hepatitis B: q- ]! R' J/ G7 w
Risk to patients is very low: health officials
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3 r" U `- X" F) bPublic health officials are contacting 1,400 patients of an Edmonton dentist after he tested positive for hepatitis B, Capital Health said Tuesday.& s, Z) h3 s3 M3 k5 C. d
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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)
$ W% }& T$ l( @) u: M- 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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Wong approached the college in February, immediately after he was told of the positive test, Skuba said.# t1 v& K. A8 `( B+ i
( [) y+ S) |2 \; u3 I0 m- jWong has been practising in Edmonton since 2001., Z4 D$ F8 E. \) o! |. U0 P
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( Q( h5 v; R" n8 V, WDr. Gerry Predy says the risk of infection to Byron Wong's patients is very small. (CBC) 9 X) X7 L# ~$ l3 p7 s6 Z2 l' u
"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.". j8 j6 j8 [$ u( A# x4 \
2 d" x, ~5 J2 y9 E. zHepatitis 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.: h7 Q4 g3 u8 P; g* s1 c
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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.( k/ r8 J, C$ F- F. O
) k( b6 D' e& C! XCapital 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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