Martha Ann Lillard’s sister said it was “hard to locate” parts for the obsolete iron lung, some of which are from the 1940s Martha Ann Lillard contracted polio in 1953, two years before the vaccine ...

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Martha Lillard was the last polio patient in the US who used an iron lung but her family told the BBC she never let it slow her down. Even with the large metal device encircling her body for hours ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On April 12, 1955, researchers announced the first polio vaccine, which was instantly approved. Before vaccines were available, ...

Martha Lillard had just turned 5 when she was diagnosed with polio and depended on an iron lung to live. She died last month in Oklahoma, the last U.S. polio patient who used the machine, her sister ...

Martha Lillard, believed to be the last person in the United States to depend on an iron lung, has died at the age of 78. Her sister, Cindy McVey, told the Associated Press that Lillard passed away on ...

McVey attributes her sister's death to the effects of long-haul COVID-19. 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 ...

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 Oklahoma, the last U.S. polio patient who used the machine, her sister said ...