One of the last polio survivors to live inside an iron lung has died at the age of 78 after the machine became too old to repair. Martha Ann Lillard died on June 26 after spending more than 70 years ...

SHAWNEE, Okla. (KFOR) – Polio was eradicated in the United States in 1979. However, the effects of the virus have lingered for one Oklahoma woman, the last polio survivor in America, to depend on an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The iron lung, conceptualized in the late 1920s, was most notably the first line of defense against polio during the epidemics ...

Nate Richard is a Resource Editor for Collider, a film and television critic, and a part-time amateur filmmaker. He graduated from Ball State University in December 2020 with a Bachelor's degree in ...

In the mid-20th century, community spaces like swimming pools and sporting events became a source of anxiety for parents who were frightened by the rampant spread of poliovirus. Their concerns weren’t ...