Eugene Jamot
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Eugène Jamot was a French entomologist who played a major role in the prevention of sleeping sickness in Cameroun
.
He was born in the hamlet of La Borie, part of the commune of Saint-Sulpice-les-Champs
, in the Creuse
département of central France.
Jamot trained as a medical doctor
at the University of Montpellier
. In 1909, he enrolled at the Marseilles School of Tropical Medicine and a year later, in 1910 he went to Cameroon with a French colonial hygiene group. They joined German scientists who had organised a Sleeping Sickness Treatment Research Group. Jamot discovered that the tsetse fly
was the vector of the trypanosomes causing the disorder. Implementing measures taken against insect borne diseases during the construction of the Panama Canal
, Jamot’s team eradicted the tsetse fly in Cameroun and hence the disease.
Later Jamot was made director of the Pasteur Institute
at Brazzaville
.
He died on the 7th April 1937, in the village of Sardent
, Creuse.
Cameroun
Cameroun was a French and British mandate territory in central Africa, now constituting the majority of the territory of the Republic of Cameroon....
.
He was born in the hamlet of La Borie, part of the commune of Saint-Sulpice-les-Champs
Saint-Sulpice-les-Champs
Saint-Sulpice-les-Champs is a commune in the Creuse department in central France.-Population:-References:*...
, in the Creuse
Creuse
Creuse is a department in central France named after the Creuse River.-History:Creuse is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. It was created from the former province of La Marche....
département of central France.
Jamot trained as a medical doctor
Physician
A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...
at the University of Montpellier
University of Montpellier
The University of Montpellier was a French university in Montpellier in the Languedoc-Roussillon région of the south of France. Its present-day successor universities are the University of Montpellier 1, Montpellier 2 University and Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III.-History:The university...
. In 1909, he enrolled at the Marseilles School of Tropical Medicine and a year later, in 1910 he went to Cameroon with a French colonial hygiene group. They joined German scientists who had organised a Sleeping Sickness Treatment Research Group. Jamot discovered that the tsetse fly
Tsetse fly
Tsetse , sometimes spelled tzetze and also known as tik-tik flies, are large biting flies that inhabit much of mid-continental Africa between the Sahara and the Kalahari deserts. They live by feeding on the blood of vertebrate animals and are the primary biological vectors of trypanosomes, which...
was the vector of the trypanosomes causing the disorder. Implementing measures taken against insect borne diseases during the construction of the Panama Canal
Panama Canal
The Panama Canal is a ship canal in Panama that joins the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean and is a key conduit for international maritime trade. Built from 1904 to 1914, the canal has seen annual traffic rise from about 1,000 ships early on to 14,702 vessels measuring a total of 309.6...
, Jamot’s team eradicted the tsetse fly in Cameroun and hence the disease.
Later Jamot was made director of the Pasteur Institute
Pasteur Institute
The Pasteur Institute is a French non-profit private foundation dedicated to the study of biology, micro-organisms, diseases, and vaccines. It is named after Louis Pasteur, who made some of the greatest breakthroughs in modern medicine at the time, including pasteurization and vaccines for anthrax...
at Brazzaville
Brazzaville
-Transport:The city is home to Maya-Maya Airport and a railway station on the Congo-Ocean Railway. It is also an important river port, with ferries sailing to Kinshasa and to Bangui via Impfondo...
.
He died on the 7th April 1937, in the village of Sardent
Sardent
Sardent is a commune in the Creuse department in the Limousin region in central France.-Geography:An area of streams, lakes, forestry and farming, comprising the village and several hamlets situated in the valley of the Gartempe River, some south of Guéret, where the D60 and the D50 roads join the...
, Creuse.
External links
- Association Docteur Jamot
- NCSU Eugène Jamot on a Cameroun postage stamp of 1954.