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咱屯一华人牙医的乙肝化验呈阳性; o/ u" f4 h" v/ H2 |" X
8 Q! h# T0 \" G+ L+ p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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6 {2 M) o# I( eAlberta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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$ Q$ q. c4 ]' M0 dSkuba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。4 B8 X! b7 q( A$ x
/ P2 q) g' Y" P8 ?自从2001年,Wong一直在Edmonton实习。
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; g! O4 V+ h$ R9 v' L( u4 l1 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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“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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7 \9 Z2 B$ q' APredy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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# _/ k7 C$ L4 m/ z! S k( V/ _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。, G7 a2 f+ C- A8 ]
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Edmonton dentist tests positive for hepatitis B
; o0 {) e4 Y! E% Q9 ^Risk to patients is very low: health officials E/ z4 n3 b0 B+ B7 ^- g8 h
Last Updated: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 | 5:00 PM MT Comments7Recommend14CBC News
2 H7 N! S; e/ y3 b# h1 fPublic 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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: N7 T" N2 Y) K3 v9 E Z6 vPublic health officials are contacting 1,400 patients of Edmonton dentist Dr. Byron Wong after he tested positive for hepatitis B. (CBC) ! X; F( Y/ K, F
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.
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( A9 R9 q$ Y, c( f4 C% g+ DWong approached the college in February, immediately after he was told of the positive test, Skuba said.
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6 `- M& a9 N( K- Z4 jWong 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.7 ]( g1 B) B" k0 z5 y( B* Y( X
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Dr. Gerry Predy says the risk of infection to Byron Wong's patients is very small. (CBC) & ^, A& m* H9 D3 s9 ?. {: j
"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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% r4 v0 X0 e n* ~! `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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, e! g" I; ]+ T, a+ RCapital 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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