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

A drop of polio vaccine falling from a pipette on to a sugar lump; advertising oral polio vaccine. Colour lithograph, 1963.

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Poliomyelitis vaccine, Oral

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

A drop of polio vaccine falling from a pipette on to a sugar lump; advertising oral polio vaccine. Colour lithograph, 1963.