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Drs. Des Jarlais, Arasteh, and Hagan provide a thoughtful commentary on our article. Although we calibrated our model to epidemiological data for Vancouver, yielding an incidence rate among injection drug users of about 5 to 6 cases per 100 person-years, we recognize that these estimates are uncertain. However, an incidence rate of 1 case per 100 person-years, as suggested by Des Jarlais and Arasteh, is almost certainly too l...
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