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Rashidul Haque steps over a gutter filled with human waste as he visits a neighborhood that holds answers to scientific mysteries about infection and immunity. The bamboo homes in this Bangladeshi slum are pressed so close together that light barely penetrates. In tiny rooms, children work at wooden looms. Water drips from corrugated roofs onto goats, broken bricks and mud. Music blares from a nearby bazaar. continued...

Photo: Pavel Rahman/AP

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Reprinted from the HHMI Bulletin,
December 2001, pages 22-25.
©2001 Howard Hughes Medical Institute

 

 

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