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Last U.S. Polio Survivor in an Iron Lung Dies After the Machine Began to Break Down and No One Could Repair It - Yahoo

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Last U.S. Polio Survivor in an Iron Lung Dies After the Machine Began to Break Down and No One Could Repair It - Yahoo
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Martha Ann Lillard, the last known U.S. polio survivor reliant on an iron lung, has passed away at age 78. Her death followed complications from long Covid and the mechanical failure of her iron lung.

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