HEALTHJul 11 · 04:15 UTCNY POSTAssociated Press

Oklahoma woman Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dead at 78

Martha Lillard, an Oklahoma woman and the last U.S. polio patient to use an iron lung, has died at 78. Her sister Cindy McVey noted doctors initially told her she would not live past 20 years old.

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