The last iron lung user: A poignant reminder of the importance of vaccines

Paul Alexander, one of the last polio victims in the world to still use an iron lung, was profiled in The Guardian four years ago. He died this week at age 78.
Mr. Alexander contracted polio in 1952, just three years before the vaccine was invented, and required an iron lung to breathe for the rest of his life. — Read the rest
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