Ayos is a town and

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in the department of

Nyong-et-Mfoumou Nyong-et-Mfoumou is a department of Centre Province in Cameroon. The department covers an area of 6,172 km and as of 2001 had a total population of 130,321. The capital of the department lies at Akonolinga. Subdivisions The department is divide ...

Centre region of

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. The district is noted for its place in the history of medicine: the 1920s saw the establishment of a medical center managed by the French doctor

Eugène Jamot Eugène Jamot (14 November 1879 – 24 April 1937) was a French military medicine in the colonial troops who played a major role in the prevention of sleeping sickness in Cameroun and other central African countries. He was born in the hamlet of ...

, famed as the person who cured

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Geography

Ayos town, with a population in 2005 of 8653, is located near the right bank of the river

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, at the confluence of the Nyong and Long-Mafog. It is crossed by the national

Yaoundé Yaoundé (; , ) is the capital of Cameroon and, with a population of more than 2.8 million, the second-largest city in the country after the port city Douala. It lies in the Centre Region of the nation at an elevation of about 750 metres (2,50 ...

Bertoua Bertoua is the capital of the Eastern Region of Cameroon and of the Lom-et-Djerem Department. It has a population of 88,462 (at the 2005 Census), and is the traditional home of the Gbaya people. It is home to an airport and Mission Cameroon (in ...

road, route N10, 139 km east of the capital

, and 42 km north-east of the prefecture

Akonolinga Akonolinga is a town and commune situated in Cameroon's Centre Province, with a population of roughly 21,300. It lies on the Nyong River, due east of the capital Yaoundé. The town is home to FS d'Akonolinga Foudre Sportive d'Akonolinga is a C ...

. Ayos town was officially decreed the principal town of its district from 1 February 1924 (with a further decree to the same effect on 7 May 1946, and was raised to the status of a commune in June 1964.

History

From the beginning of the twentieth century, the shores of Haut-Nyong were reported as an epicentre of

: in 1901 a German officer, Captain Von Stein, pointed out for the first time an outbreak of trypanosomiasis east of Atok, on the upper Nyong river. In January 1913, the German doctor Philalethes Kuhn established the first Western medical establishment in Ayos. The 1920s saw new sanitary facilities constituting the logistical and scientific basis for the sleeping sickness control program led by the French military doctor Eugène Jamot, installed in Ayos in 1922, succeeding Dr Jojot. On 8 April 1926, a ministerial decreed established Jamot as the director of a mission to cure sleeping sickness, and at the end of 1926 the Centre d’Instruction d'Ayos was established under the direction of Doctor de Marqueissac. Between 1926 and 1931, the scourge of sleeping sickness was overcome in Cameroon. However, it is then recommended to continue the effort by financial means, sufficient staff and administrative autonomy.IRD - Sleeping Sickness
.htm '' Biographie Jamot (1879-1937) ''
(accessed 2018)

Organisation

Besides Ayos and its districts, the commune includes the following villages: * Abeng-Nnam * Aboé * Adoua * Akam-Engali * Asso-Obam * Atong * Atout * Biyem * By * Ebeck * Ekok *

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* Fang-Bikang I * Fang-Bikang II * Koba *

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* Lembe * Mbaka * Mbang * Mebissi * Mekouma * Melane * Meto'o * Ndéllé *

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* Nebodo * Ngolebomo * Ngoubi * Ngoumesseng * Ngoun * Nguinda-Minfolo * Niamvoudou * Nkolmveng * Nkoloboudou II * Nsan * Nvanga * Nyabewa *

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* Olembe * Tomba I *

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* Yebe

People born in Ayos

* Joseph Beti Assomo, politician

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People born in Ayos

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