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Martha Lillard, last known US polio survivor using iron lung, dies aged 78
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Lillard, of Oklahoma, contracted polio when she was five and slept inside cylindrical metal device to help her breathe The last known US person living with polio and relying on an iron lung has died aged 78.
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