Martha Lillard, America’s last iron lung polio patient, dies at 78 in Oklahoma
Martha Lillard, the last known American polio patient who depended on an iron lung to breathe, died June 26 in Shawnee, Oklahoma. She was 78 years old, nearly six decades past the age doctors once told her family she would reach. Her sister, Cindy McVey, told the Associated Press that Lillard’s death certificate lists chronic pulmonary failure …
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