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Frenchman 'with three faces' Jérôme Hamon dies aged 49

French face transplant patient Jérôme Hamon has died aged 49. © LP / ARNAUD DUMONTIER

Jérôme Hamon, the first man in the world to have undergone two face transplants – in 2010 and 2018 – and who thus had three different faces during his life, has died at the age of 49.

"He was exhausted at the end," Franck Zal, a close family friend and doctor of the Frenchman, told Brittany daily Le Télégramme.

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