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In 1930, examining blind patients in the region of former belgique-congo, the belgian physician Jean Hissette discovered the parasitic nematode Onchocerca volvulus, cause of river blindness or onchocerciasis. Research by the ophthalmologist Professor Guido Kluxen revealed new historic material - a video documenting the work of Hissette, taken during a visit of Professor Richard Pearson Strong in 1934. Today, an estimated 17 million people suffer from the infection, 95% of them in Africa. Diagnos

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