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LATEST NEWS MARK KNOBIL/CREATIVE COMMONS Laid low.?A cholera ward in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a country where nearly half the people are infected with the cholera bacterium by age 15. Cholera Is Altering the Human Genome By?Mitch Leslie?3 July 2013 2:35 pm Cholera kills thousands of people a year, but a new study suggests that the human body is fighting back. Researchers have found evidence that the genomes of people in Bangladesh—where the disease is prevalent—have developed ways to combat the disease, a dramatic case of human evolution happening in modern times. Cholera has hitchhiked around the