About: Jean Hissette

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Jean Hissette (30 August 1888 – 26 August 1965) was a Belgian ophthalmologist. Hissette was born in Leuven. In 1930, he became the first to discover , a severe eye disease occurring in people affected by onchocerciasis, a filarial worm infection. Onchocerciasis had already been known for a long time, but until 1930 no other specialist in tropical diseases had ever identified severely afflicted blind people anywhere in Africa. Hissette discovered several thousand victims along the Sankuru river in Belgian Congo, and so became the first one to identify this strain of the disease.

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  • Jean Hissette (* 30. August 1888 in Löwen; † 26. August 1965 in Forest/Brüssel) war ein belgischer Augenarzt. Hissette ist der Entdecker der afrikanischen okulären Onchozerkose (Flussblindheit) und er war der erste, der die Entstehung der Erblindung bei der Filarienkrankheit Onchozerkose klären konnte. (de)
  • Jean Hissette (30 August 1888 – 26 August 1965) was a Belgian ophthalmologist. Hissette was born in Leuven. In 1930, he became the first to discover , a severe eye disease occurring in people affected by onchocerciasis, a filarial worm infection. Onchocerciasis had already been known for a long time, but until 1930 no other specialist in tropical diseases had ever identified severely afflicted blind people anywhere in Africa. Hissette discovered several thousand victims along the Sankuru river in Belgian Congo, and so became the first one to identify this strain of the disease. (en)
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  • Jean Hissette (* 30. August 1888 in Löwen; † 26. August 1965 in Forest/Brüssel) war ein belgischer Augenarzt. Hissette ist der Entdecker der afrikanischen okulären Onchozerkose (Flussblindheit) und er war der erste, der die Entstehung der Erblindung bei der Filarienkrankheit Onchozerkose klären konnte. (de)
  • Jean Hissette (30 August 1888 – 26 August 1965) was a Belgian ophthalmologist. Hissette was born in Leuven. In 1930, he became the first to discover , a severe eye disease occurring in people affected by onchocerciasis, a filarial worm infection. Onchocerciasis had already been known for a long time, but until 1930 no other specialist in tropical diseases had ever identified severely afflicted blind people anywhere in Africa. Hissette discovered several thousand victims along the Sankuru river in Belgian Congo, and so became the first one to identify this strain of the disease. (en)
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  • Jean Hissette (de)
  • Jean Hissette (en)
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