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Author Vargha, Dóra, 1979- author.

Title Polio across the Iron Curtain : Hungary's Cold War with an epidemic / Dóra Vargha.

Publication Info. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
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Description 1 online resource
Series Global health histories (Series)
Note Title from content provider.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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.
Local Note Cambridge University Press Cambridge Open Access Books
Subject Poliomyelitis -- Hungary -- History.
Poliomyelitis vaccine, Oral -- History.
World health -- History -- 20th century.
Poliomyelitis. (OCoLC)fst01068830
Poliomyelitis vaccine, Oral. (OCoLC)fst01068854
World health. (OCoLC)fst01181338
Hungary. (OCoLC)fst01205132
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9781108420846
1108420842
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