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Last American to use an iron lung dies at 78 years old after childhood polio diagnosis
Martha Lillard, the last American to rely on an iron lung due to childhood polio, died at 78. She contracted polio at age 5, used the iron lung for breathing, and later faced complications from two COVID-19 infections. She lived independently, married a man from Egypt, and died of chronic pulmonary failure and post-polio syndrome.
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- Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dies at 78 in Oklahoma
- Martha Lillard, last American to use iron lung, dies at 78
- Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dies at 78 in Oklahoma
- Oklahoma woman Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dead at 78