Polio across the Iron Curtain : : Hungary's Cold War with an epidemic / / Dóra Vargha.
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. This immunization campai...
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Superior document: | Global health histories |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press,, 2018. |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Edition: | Online edition. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Global health histories (Series)
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 254 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
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Table of Contents:
- The power of polio
- Iron Curtain, iron lungs
- Unlikely allies
- Local failure in a global success
- Sabin saves the day
- After the end of polio.