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Martha Lillard, last U.S. polio patient using iron lung, dies at 78 in Oklahoma

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Martha Lillard, last U.S. polio patient using iron lung, dies at 78 in Oklahoma
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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. She was 78. “They told her she wasn’t supposed to live past 20 years old,” Lillard’s younge...

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