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

• Format: Elektronisch Buchkapitel
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2018
• Schriftenreihe: Global Health Histories
• Schlagworte: Medicine; iron curtain; polio; Hungary
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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. This immunisation campaig...