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Mar 23, 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 inside...
May 26, 2020 · Paul Alexander is given a shave while inside an iron lung in his home in Dallas, Texas. Photograph: Allison Smith/The Guardian. When he was six, Paul Alexander contracted polio and was...
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...
Mar 13, 2024 · Paul Alexander, who lived much of his life in an iron lung after contracting polio at the age of six, has died at the age of 78. The Texas resident was paralysed from the neck down by the...
Mar 13, 2024 · 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...
Mar 13, 2024 · Published March 13, 2024 at 12:18 PM EDT. Polio struck Paul Alexander in 1952, when he was just 6 years old. Within days, the disease robbed him of the use of his body. But he fought through the illness, using an iron lung for more than 70 years — and inspiring people with his determination to live a full life.
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