A Texan man dubbed “Polio Paul” is one of the last people in the world who still has an iron lung.
Paul Alexander, 75, has been largely confined to the contraption since he contracted the deadly disease almost seven decades ago.
The ventilators — which were invented in the 1920s — lined hospital wards amid polio outbreaks that plagued the US until the second half of the last century. Please open the link. This man's story is remarkable. https://nypost.com/2021/11/01/polio-paul-is-one-of-the-last-men-left-with-an-iron-lung/
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