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- Jean_Hissette comment "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 African River Blindness, 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.".