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

Martha Ann Lillard died at age 78 following a struggle with long Covid and the breakdown of her iron lung ...

Last U.S. polio patient with an iron lung dies at 78 in Oklahoma

Martha Lillard was diagnosed with polio at age 5. For the past two years, she was in an iron lung nearly 24 hours a day.

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

Martha Lillard had just turned 5 when she was diagnosed with polio and depended on an iron lung to live. She died June 26 in ...
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How Kenyan volunteers hunt polio’s hidden trail

Community health volunteers travel across remote northern Kenya to detect poliovirus before it can spread.
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Polio Vaccine History: The Shot That Saved Millions

It was like a horror movie. The invisible polio virus would strike, leaving young children on crutches, in wheelchairs or in a dreaded “iron lung” ventilator. Each summer, the fear was so great that ...