Footage shows brutal reality of woman’s life before she died in iron lung as machine was too old to repair

Martha Lillard
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Martha Ann Lillard is an American polio survivor who, following Paul Alexander's death, became the last known person who still lives in an iron lung. She contracted polio in 1953, when she was five years old.
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Decades after polio, Martha is among the last to still rely on an iron lung to breathe