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Paul Richard Alexander (January 30, 1946 – March 11, 2024) was an American paralytic polio survivor, lawyer and writer. The last man to live in an iron lung, he contracted polio in 1952 at the age of six.
Mar 13, 2024 · March 13, 2024. After he was paralyzed by polio at age 6, Paul Alexander was confined for much of his life to a yellow iron lung that kept him alive. He was not expected to survive after that...
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Mar 14, 2024 · CNN —. Paul Alexander, who spent the vast majority of the past 70 years in an iron lung and defied expectations by becoming a lawyer and author, died Monday afternoon at the age of 78,...
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Mar 13, 2024 · 13 March 2024. By Ido Vock and Cat Snowdon,BBC News. GoFundMe. The polio survivor known as "the man in the iron lung" has died at the age of 78. Paul Alexander contracted polio in 1952 when he...
Mar 13, 2024 · Paul Alexander, who held a Guinness World Record for living the longest with the help of an iron lung, has died. Here, medical staff stand among iron lung machines in an emergency polio ward at...
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Mar 24, 2024 · 23 March 2024. By Catherine Snowdon,BBC News. Philip Alexander with his brother Paul, in his iron lung machine. Paul Alexander was six years old when he woke, terrified, to find himself...
23 March 2024. By Catherine Snowdon,BBC News. Philip Alexander with his brother Paul, in his iron lung machine. Paul Alexander was six years old when he woke, terrified, to find himself...
