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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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$ }- K: L9 q- O( W5 V, ^7 q2 q3 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。- d. H; }6 ?# ^1 Z* h9 k$ ~
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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。. {% w. t( t. R3 @
) r( ~* o$ X8 T% c* ?自从2001年，Wong一直在Edmonton实习。- N6 \$ k$ U! L: c
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: h# `" G; e9 j- s+ V) {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。& }, M Y7 P+ {9 J. q
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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。”% B7 D3 Y2 V4 |
2 b; T7 g) {9 P9 c2 f3 @4 uPredy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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9 _9 t7 M! ^, V: e! r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
2 D0 m% w( z) u; M3 GRisk to patients is very low: health officials
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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.
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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)
% {; C- x/ j! W3 L/ F4 }$ w; QThe 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 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.( h! L& u- d, l$ }
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Dr. Gerry Predy says the risk of infection to Byron Wong's patients is very small. (CBC)
$ M0 o) N6 |0 f X"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.! o: L- `! c8 h0 y2 \. i) }' b
7 S8 X; ]% s$ }7 D7 M* [, G( Q" uOfficials 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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