Tom Peto and colleagues point out, reasonably, that the effect of mass drug administration (MDA) on malaria could be affected substantially by patterns of human movement, and that our Article¹ does not consider the effects of the specific patterns of movement they observed in Cambodia and west Africa. The purpose of our Article¹ was to derive general results about the possible effect of MDA and to test how robust these are to the assumptions in different models, so we avoided assumptions about population movement that are specific to any particular place.

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模范公民 - 作者的回复。

Tom Peto 及其同事合理地指出，大规模药物管理 (MDA) 对疟疾的影响可能会受到人类运动模式的重大影响，并且我们的第¹条没有考虑他们观察到的特定运动模式的影响。柬埔寨和西非。我们第¹条的目的是得出关于 MDA 可能影响的一般结果，并测试这些结果对不同模型中的假设的稳健性，因此我们避免了针对任何特定地点的人口流动假设。