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Polio Across the Iron Curtain: Hungary's Cold War with an Epidemic
Polio Across the Iron Curtain: Hungary's Cold War with an Epidemic
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2018
Authors
Dóra Vargha
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By the end of the 1950s Hungary became an unlikely leader in what we now call global health. Only three years after Soviet tanks crushed the revolution of 1956, Hungary became one of the first countries to introduce the Sabin vaccine into its national vaccination programme
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press ; License: CC BY-NC-ND ; Source: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108355421 ; 254 pages
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Iron Curtain,
Iron Lungs,
Global Health History