For many people, the iron lung belongs to history books, a symbol of the years when polio swept through communities before vaccines transformed public health. Rows of large metal cylinders once filled...
Martha Lillard rests in her iron lung in Feb, in Shawnee, Oklahoma Martha Lillard had just turned 5 when she was diagnosed with polio and depended on an iron lung to live. She died June 26 in Oklahoma...
Polio Alert: Is Your Travel Vaccine Up-to-Date? CDC Issues Level-2 Advisory Global health authorities are once again sounding the alarm over polio, a disease many countries had hoped was nearly eradic...