Title: Polio across the Iron Curtain : Hungary's Cold War with an epidemic /
Authors: Vargha, Dóra, 1979-
Year: 2018
Subjects: Poliomyelitis Hungary History.; Poliomyelitis vaccine, Oral History.; World health History; Poliomyelitis; Poliomyelitis vaccine, Oral.; World health; Hungary
Abstract: "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"--
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.