I was born in 1929 in the city of Szeged, then the second largest city in Hungary. By the time I was 8 years old I had survived measles, chicken pox, whooping cough, and a mild case of scarlet fever. In those days getting through infectious diseases one by one was almost expected as part of growing up. In the late 1930s, Europe, including Hungary, was in the midst of a severe polio epidemic. For a whole summer I was not let out of the house to have fun on the local playgrounds. In 1955 during my internship at St.
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