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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。3 _& [5 L8 v9 l! ]
" U; Y! P/ G5 w4 n. D: _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。
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+ ~6 Y" e0 \- E/ w- ASkuba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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自从2001年，Wong一直在Edmonton实习。- o+ i0 Z0 h& _2 Z
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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。”' M$ }/ L8 `2 M9 y" p. N8 s
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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。3 o4 M; O2 J' A. t/ j
' V( X; b7 |; s1 W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。; k' K! `" u9 ?7 `; t
( \* @; f% Q& Z 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。. O; g" Q0 p1 W. X. t7 ~7 g* e1 V
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' W. C% _; `2 \$ m4 Z4 TEdmonton dentist tests positive for hepatitis B1 Z2 ?$ E- J9 K0 p( B# [0 Y
Risk 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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+ G* ^+ h' X q1 y8 c# KPublic health officials are contacting 1,400 patients of Edmonton dentist Dr. Byron Wong after he tested positive for hepatitis B. (CBC)
4 Z: [ Q8 T% h# {$ B3 tThe 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.3 m0 v: g6 n: }
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Wong approached the college in February, immediately after he was told of the positive test, Skuba said.+ q' J+ ?% p( } o
5 `9 Q# {# F) N: }; x% `1 F. rWong has been practising in Edmonton since 2001.4 K t- \! I% E/ u" H7 p9 f/ o
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"The risk to patients is very small," Dr. Gerry Predy, medical officer of health, told a news conference Tuesday.
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Dr. Gerry Predy says the risk of infection to Byron Wong's patients is very small. (CBC) , R& y* P G& I( A3 \( y
"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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. x, n. e! G% a9 j! \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.2 }. W3 G! a( O( {+ G& a2 s
$ F. N7 `& A2 vOfficials 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. g' m2 n7 \9 B1 P" f, x
/ ]$ r/ t8 j$ B6 I& Z( 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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