Woman, 78, Last Polio Survivor Living In Iron Lung, Passes Away After Machine Becomes Too Old To Repair

passing at 78

Image credits: KFOR Oklahoma’s News 4/YouTube

Martha Ann Lillard contracted polio in 1953 on her fifth birthday, just two years before the first polio vaccine became available in the United States.

Speaking to Oklahoma station KFOR just days before her passing, she remembered how quickly her condition worsened.

“I woke up, and it was sunny continue reading …