Polio Across the Iron Curtain Hungary's Cold War with an Epidemic

• বিন্যাস: বৈদ্যুতিক গ্রন্থের অধ্যায়
• ভাষা: ইংরেজি
• প্রকাশিত: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2018
• মালা: Global Health Histories
• বিষয়গুলি: Medicine; iron curtain; polio; Hungary
• অনলাইন ব্যবহার করুন: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

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 immunisation campaig...