Aug. 16—EAST GRAND FORKS — For Sidney Berard, 94, the iron lung displayed during the recent Heritage Days in East Grand Forks ignited vivid memories from more than 70 years ago. Berard was among a ...

Martha Lillard needed a large respirator called an iron lung to recover from polio, which she caught in 1953. She still uses a form of the device at nights. (Courtesy of Martha Lillard) On June 8, ...

Glenn Pueppke, an Erie, N.D., farmer, has had his share of grief. He wrote Neighbors about it after seeing this column asking if anyone could identify with the iron lung machine. Here's his story: ...

(Gray News) – Paul Alexander, one of the last people who lived inside an iron lung, has died, according to reports. He was 78 years old. Paul Alexander contracted polio when he was 6 years old in 1952 ...

A Texan man dubbed “Polio Paul” is one of the last people in the world who still has an iron lung. Paul Alexander, 75, has been largely confined to the contraption since he contracted the deadly ...

On June 8, 1953, Martha Lillard celebrated her fifth birthday with a party at an amusement park in Oklahoma. A little over a week later, she woke up with a sore throat and a pain in her neck. Her ...