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咱屯一华人牙医的乙肝化验呈阳性! I/ ]4 ~ C! u+ @3 e( D
4 m5 O! ^1 n+ K) K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。* a8 @% F }& @2 [
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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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# h. [9 s% E9 t, ?. U自从2001年，Wong一直在Edmonton实习。# w- D" @: ?7 R1 S
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5 @& Y5 s7 m( o S4 E; |9 Y* 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。
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" O$ H; [( {) E: @: o# E- z7 `7 P“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 A- p5 G) ]& _1 f8 s9 JPredy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。7 b; F/ t) K' K, b
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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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+ l! F b; } N2 J {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。) R4 S* ^+ v& G
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Edmonton dentist tests positive for hepatitis B9 u; ] z; N; I' Z! e- \
Risk to patients is very low: health officials- h/ C* { y8 ~8 r3 A5 ^
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Public health officials are contacting 1,400 patients of an Edmonton dentist after he tested positive for hepatitis B, Capital Health said Tuesday.. [4 Z+ Y% U* o9 G2 Y- B2 p& b
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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) g+ _% Q- \/ t9 y6 G1 j# R
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.1 a4 x: p$ |5 |# v& E* o: U
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Wong approached the college in February, immediately after he was told of the positive test, Skuba said./ n- S; N" A# Q! N5 J. i- J( x
$ T3 l6 G n$ A9 Q8 pWong has been practising in Edmonton since 2001.
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"The risk to patients is very small," Dr. Gerry Predy, medical officer of health, told a news conference Tuesday.6 ?+ U) C4 P& B; z1 A
+ o3 R5 h7 c& J" WDr. Gerry Predy says the risk of infection to Byron Wong's patients is very small. (CBC)
( B" |0 N3 |8 T6 Y+ \4 G6 T"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."8 p7 D! V3 c1 |4 n4 o0 L1 b- T
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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.& E2 j0 W# K2 G
! A: }0 M, E, pOfficials 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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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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