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America's last iron lung users on their lives spent inside obsolete ventilators | The Independent | The Independent
Letters to the Editor: I cared for polio patients in iron lungs, and I'm sick of anti-vaxxers - Los Angeles Times
Call the Midwife - Those who watched our Christmas Special will have seen a major story strand involving the scourge of polio, and treatment involving a machine called a negative pressure ventilator -
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Paul Alexander| This man has been using iron lung machine for nearly 70 years | Trending & Viral News
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My experience with the iron lung, the negative pressure ventilators of the past | British Columbia Medical Journal
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