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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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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。
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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。0 j8 r% G6 ?0 v* ]: B& x; _
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自从2001年，Wong一直在Edmonton实习。
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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。
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1 C3 d+ p% t) a" h. D) W“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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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。9 v% _8 |2 J' g
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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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9 }( E, ~/ @+ m; t+ 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。1 E" r# A C# ]! ~9 h- _$ {$ v
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, [! {7 w9 @0 p0 R. L! J+ mEdmonton dentist tests positive for hepatitis B+ Z) t' u5 v/ k
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Last Updated: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 | 5:00 PM MT Comments7Recommend14CBC News 5 v+ ]) v% ^( R4 l/ j1 J. Y$ o
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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Public health officials are contacting 1,400 patients of Edmonton dentist Dr. Byron Wong after he tested positive for hepatitis B. (CBC) 5 [" O0 f# G* l
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.6 p$ o+ p3 d+ U/ a
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Wong approached the college in February, immediately after he was told of the positive test, Skuba said.
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& [) ~ N+ o A/ |Wong has been practising in Edmonton since 2001., C( u; N+ k1 g6 M' M( y
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"The risk to patients is very small," Dr. Gerry Predy, medical officer of health, told a news conference Tuesday.; s1 G* s% e) c8 q6 m
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Dr. Gerry Predy says the risk of infection to Byron Wong's patients is very small. (CBC) 3 j) `3 ?0 M9 U4 k+ Z$ ~3 D
"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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' T# U8 u, |$ U2 a! t& i2 B% UHepatitis 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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: C8 s T& o! a- g7 E3 \8 ]& ~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.
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j& c0 L, v8 W% {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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