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2. Paul Alexander (polio survivor) - Wikipedia

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   Paul Richard Alexander (January 30, 1946 – March 11, 2024) was an American paralytic polio survivor, lawyer and author. He contracted polio in 1952 at the age of six and spent the vast majority of his life in an iron lung for more than 70 years.

3. Paul Alexander thrived while using an iron lung for decades ...

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   DALLAS (AP) — Confined to an iron lung after contracting polio as a child, Paul Alexander managed to train himself to breathe on his own for part of the day, earned a law degree, wrote a book ...

4. Paul Alexander, known as the 'man in the iron lung' since ...

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   The last man to live in an iron lung died in Dallas on Monday. Paul Alexander, 78, spent more than 70 years confined to an iron lung after contracting polio as a child in 1952.

5. Paul Alexander, polio survivor in iron lung for over 70 years ...

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   Paul Alexander, the man who lived inside an iron lung for over 70 years after contracting polio, died Monday after being hospitalized for Covid last month, his friends and family said. He was 78 ...

6. List of polio survivors - Wikipedia

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   Author of fiction and non-fiction books. She caught polio, aged four, and spent several months in an iron lung. [73] Peter Preston: 1938-2018: Journalist and former editor of The Guardian. He caught polio shortly after his father who died in a couple of days. Preston needed an iron lung to survive and was frequently in hospital for the next 18 ...

7. Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio - Wikipedia

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   Peg: Main character and narrator of the story, diagnosed with polio. Karen: Peg's best friend at school; Tommy: Peg's hospital roommate at University Hospital, in an iron lung. Renee: Sheltering Arms roommate, who goes home for Christmas. Shirley: Sheltering Arms roommate, who has the worst polio and likes marshmallows.

8. ‘Polio Paul,’ who spent most of the past 70 years in an iron ...

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   Thanks for sharing your story with us,” Christopher Ulmer, organizer of the GoFundMe fundraiser, said on the page. ... said on the page. Paul developed polio in the summer of 1952, at the age of ...

9. Polio: An American Story - Wikipedia

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   Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky, professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin, documents the polio epidemic in the United States during the 1940s and 1950s and the race to develop a vaccine, which led to 2 different types of polio vaccine: inactivated poliovirus vaccine, developed by a team led by Jonas Salk, and oral poliovirus vaccine, developed by a team led by ...