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Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dies at 78

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Jennifer Sinco Kelleher
Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dies at 78
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Martha Lillard, the last known U.S. polio patient to rely on an iron lung, has died at age 78. She lived for decades in the machine after contracting polio as a child, eventually succumbing to complications related to post-polio syndrome and COVID-19.

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