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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。. F5 }7 t+ A) v2 o
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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。) p# V: t: o J2 {6 N$ d9 R J
3 K# o* l- u! m; ?" tSkuba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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j/ d2 {* q9 c自从2001年，Wong一直在Edmonton实习。( W" i( }' N6 {4 E* _
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2 F8 p' L4 s2 c* {+ W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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5 Y" A9 q% I. q, ~# A8 q“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。5 l+ v$ Y* h$ l& X( O" @0 X9 j
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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。2 T) {( `8 ^$ q- `$ W X
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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。8 b4 Z) x8 j: j4 n# H$ L6 o& r' w, T
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Edmonton dentist tests positive for hepatitis B
1 P; C# E6 v8 P1 w# x i$ J" nRisk to patients is very low: health officials
& p8 i+ t* x7 OLast Updated: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 | 5:00 PM MT Comments7Recommend14CBC News
* c+ j- g& A }3 D4 @- O* [- sPublic health officials are contacting 1,400 patients of an Edmonton dentist after he tested positive for hepatitis B, Capital Health said Tuesday.# F% S5 T6 |" c% y8 X
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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)
6 S- p2 W& v8 c9 N3 ]. 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 approached the college in February, immediately after he was told of the positive test, Skuba said.
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Wong has been practising in Edmonton since 2001.; a( a+ g) E$ h8 k
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"The risk to patients is very small," Dr. Gerry Predy, medical officer of health, told a news conference Tuesday." T8 t8 ^& z& d4 c( Z( {
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Dr. Gerry Predy says the risk of infection to Byron Wong's patients is very small. (CBC) ' Z; M, D. [2 N: T1 @
"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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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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. V( [" U3 j0 k; ~+ I8 A7 M3 c6 O7 eCapital 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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