Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dies
- Martha Lillard rests in her iron lung in Feb, in Shawnee, OklahomaMartha 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 US polio patient who used the machine, her sister said.
- "They told her she wasn't supposed to live past 20 years old," Lillard's younger sister, Cindy McVey, said on Friday.
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- Martha Lillard rests in her iron lung in Feb, in Shawnee, OklahomaMartha 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 US polio patient who used the machine, her sister said.
- "They told her she wasn't supposed to live past 20 years old," Lillard's younger sister, Cindy McVey, said on Friday.
Sources: Times of India