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

Posted 7/10/26

Martha Lillard, the last U.S. polio patient using an iron lung, has died at 78 in Oklahoma. Her sister, Cindy McVey, attributes her death to long-haul COVID-19. Diagnosed with polio at 5, Lillard …

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