OUTSTANDING NEUROLOGISTS/INCIDENCE OF POLIOMYALITIS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600060274-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 17, 2011
• Sequence Number: 274
• Publication Date: August 27, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFIG.ATION CGYFIDENTTAL
CENTRAL INTELLfGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION REPORT
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Tk~e disease pcliom~~;litis is most uxcommon in Hunaary as v~17 as in other
parte of centrsl Europe, Conxequeni;ly, very little olio rose '
},lace i n HunFiary.
the. galio.virua was ver mild and rha 50X1-HUM
mare ~iaile than the flu virus
Consequently, the youth of the country .develop an early immunity .to this
affliction. Mary $ungarian physicians have neither seen xtor treated a
single case of polic. Ne more than 20 r..linically diagnosed cases oP polio 50X1-HUM
.occur throughout Iiungary dricl.:.g an flscrage year. In 193-37:Hungary suffered
Prom whet was ;.onGirtered a polio e~~i.d,~mi,;?. H.~;ir~ thet y~.ts`~Oclinically
disgnosed 100 ;.sees. Strsxegely., only adults had contracted polio. Of this
group of 100, five diF:3., 50X1-HUM
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