Lillard died at age 78 after a struggle with long COVID and the breakdown of her decades-old iron lung Martha Ann Lillard, the last U.S. polio patient who used an iron lung to survive, has died at age ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Martha Ann Lillard, the last U.S. polio survivor dependent on an iron lung, died on June 26 at age 78, highlighting a rare chapter ...

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Martha Ann Lillard, the last U.S. polio patient who used an iron lung to survive, has died at age 78 after the machine, which dates back to the 1940s, began to break down — and no one could repair it.

SHAWNEE, Okla. (KFOR) – The last polio survivor in America to depend on an iron lung has died. Martha Ann Lillard, 78, invited Nexstar’s KFOR to her Shawnee, Oklahoma, home three weeks ago because she ...