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咱屯一华人牙医的乙肝化验呈阳性
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( A+ I9 T! S- A9 ^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 r/ d% u5 H7 F8 o! x, YAlberta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。8 s9 n$ l6 r: g5 q& b0 ]- i/ `
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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。3 A1 \7 ^& a' P3 Y' i, @" V
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3 H' ^. p7 q) h, e- c+ F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。( j: `4 w& I/ P- x
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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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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。 t' B: o- q. W. a
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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。1 f; ^$ l5 Y1 U7 I! V
3 A/ h8 U, S4 x; l5 A# O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。. ?( W# K ~! }2 L7 C- @* w4 e! ]
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1 L* v4 N1 ^1 Q* ~* @Edmonton dentist tests positive for hepatitis B/ Z7 A9 l) O1 w
Risk to patients is very low: health officials
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' A8 K3 `* t, i) [$ l9 MPublic health officials are contacting 1,400 patients of an Edmonton dentist after he tested positive for hepatitis B, Capital Health said Tuesday.% Y2 K/ R# [( b; f0 R- J
3 X6 k$ h: v$ E( _- M% A0 W; ZPublic health officials are contacting 1,400 patients of Edmonton dentist Dr. Byron Wong after he tested positive for hepatitis B. (CBC) ]3 e& H# L* n1 S
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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Wong approached the college in February, immediately after he was told of the positive test, Skuba said.7 C |2 j8 {( D) `' b3 h0 z
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Wong has been practising in Edmonton since 2001.
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p) ?$ `4 j* W; U"The risk to patients is very small," Dr. Gerry Predy, medical officer of health, told a news conference Tuesday.! X- Q/ _! w% R# N# f
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Dr. Gerry Predy says the risk of infection to Byron Wong's patients is very small. (CBC)
E+ |: P' z+ G+ {. r"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."& E& L$ I( a9 a
" Z( I$ Z% |( d) O8 ^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. U! N, `! i6 f
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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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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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