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Polio across the Iron Curtain : Hungary's Cold War with an epidemic /

"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"--|cProvided by...

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Main Author:	Vargha, Dóra, 1979- (Author)
Corporate Author:	Cambridge University Press
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Series:	Global health histories (Series)
Subjects:	Poliomyelitis > Hungary > History. Poliomyelitis vaccine, Oral > History. World health > History > 20th century. Poliovirus Vaccine, Oral > history Poliomyelitis > history Global Health > history History, 20th Century Hungary Poliomyélite > Hongrie > Histoire. Vaccin antipoliomyélitique oral > Histoire. Santé mondiale > Histoire > 20e siècle. Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle. Poliomyelitis. Poliomyelitis vaccine, Oral. World health. Hungary. 1900-1999 Electronic books. History.
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