Patient living inside iron lung for 70 years dies after machine became too old to repair

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Last US polio survivor in iron lung dies after machine breaks down

Martha Ann Lillard, the last U.S. polio patient who used an iron lung to survive, has died at age 78. The Shawnee, Okla., resident first experienced symptoms of the disease on her fifth birthday in 1953, she told KFOR 8 days before her death. “I woke up and it was sunny outside, and I started []...Click to read more

The last polio survivor who used an iron lung died at age 78, because they couldn't find anyone to fix it. Mr. Frump inconsolable [Sad]

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Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dies

Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dies

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Martha Ann Lillard, who spent nearly seven decades living in an iron lung after contracting polio as a child, has died at 78.