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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 W4 h1 I! J- q" n6 tAlberta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。
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* _& ]) B, m5 M) X) R6 q5 H自从2001年,Wong一直在Edmonton实习。( K; j( H9 t7 p
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. O; ]0 g5 S& O$ K, J- X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。' H9 r- \/ V# h5 U; j6 O; F
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9 i3 l8 \7 Q5 _$ G“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。
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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 \) J3 Z4 S* 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。0 L& _ g8 d( K }" q0 E! t) P
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# }3 Z/ P. C5 j; O, bEdmonton dentist tests positive for hepatitis B
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Last Updated: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 | 5:00 PM MT Comments7Recommend14CBC News 1 b) _5 [& @( X, _
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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8 }, Y9 v% R9 K$ \. uPublic health officials are contacting 1,400 patients of Edmonton dentist Dr. Byron Wong after he tested positive for hepatitis B. (CBC)
/ O; k. W1 g) U2 BThe 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.0 y% o! u4 G* R* C8 w" t' b$ r
$ k8 }. f6 G9 D8 @/ kWong approached the college in February, immediately after he was told of the positive test, Skuba said.1 c- Z) u7 j! m, h# l. d* p5 e
0 t% E* u9 r3 QWong 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." m$ ^9 n' s( H1 b! X1 Q: V, E
9 s- ^( [0 U* P3 @) L4 K/ oDr. Gerry Predy says the risk of infection to Byron Wong's patients is very small. (CBC) 8 l+ X% w2 m+ q" E. B
"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.0 w) m: o9 z9 q- k( b4 }' k' @
) i1 i1 W$ }+ x; ]* S `, x. ?! h+ QOfficials 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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' p( V7 \. F4 hCapital 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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