82-year-old Mona Randolph is a polio survivor and one of the last three people in the U.S. who still uses an iron lung Julie Mazziotta is the Senior Sports Editor at PEOPLE, covering everything ...

On the death certificate he wrote: “Acute nephritis due to chronic kidney stones due to poliomyelitis.” *A month ago, Fred Snite Jr. marked the end of 14 years in an iron lung. Contact us at ...

The iron lung is unable to cope with the irregular breathing in cases of bulbar poliomyelitis. On the other hand, the electrophrenic method cannot handle the more common, spinal type of paralysis.

Polio was a disease that devastated the United ... the effects of the disease decades after its initial strike. The iron lung was an invention that helped keep thousands of sufferers alive ...

To the editor: I am a survivor of bulbar (throat) polio; I contracted it when I was 5 years old in 1946. While I was fortunate to survive and not be placed in an iron lung, I was left unable to ...

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My cousin also had polio and it attacked his lungs. He was put in an iron lung, and it was (a) death sentence and he lived for three years. I was fortunate. I had polio in my left leg, and had ...

The polio survivor, Paul Alexander, lived inside an iron lung for 70 years. But what is an iron lung and how does it work. Video by Sanjana Bhambhani We go inside a New York City lab developing ...

On April 12, 1955, the vaccine developed by Jonas Salk and his colleagues was officially declared ‘safe, effective and potent’ ...