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Texas man who used an iron lung for decades after contracting polio as a child dies at 78

DALLAS (AP) — A Texas man who spent most of his 78 years using an iron lung chamber and built a large following on social media, recounting his life from contracting polio in the 1940s to earning a ...
WUFT

Paul Alexander, forced into an iron lung by polio in 1952, dies at 78

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 ...
KTLA

Man who used an iron lung for decades after contracting polio dies at 78

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DALLAS (AP) — A Texas man who spent most of ...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat

Texas man who used an iron lung for decades after contracting polio as a child dies at 78

A Texas man who spent decades using an iron lung after contracting polio as a child has died at the age of 78. DALLAS — A Texas man who spent most of his 78 years using an iron lung chamber and built ...