{"id":135440,"date":"2017-11-27T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T17:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135440"},"modified":"2017-11-27T17:39:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T00:39:02","slug":"iron-lungs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/27\/iron-lungs.html","title":{"rendered":"Iron Lungs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iron Lungs are breathing assistance devices that were used to enable polio victims to survive. As polio recedes into memory here in the US (enough so that a lot of people have stopped vaccinating their kids for it, which might mean a sudden epidemic could bring it back big time), the number of people using iron lungs here has dwindled to just a tiny handful.<\/p>\n

Here are some of their stories.<\/p>\n


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\nThe Last of the Iron Lungs<\/a><\/span>
\nMartha Lillard spends half of every day with her body encapsulated in a half-century old machine that forces her to breathe. Only her head sticks out of the end of the antique iron lung. On the other side, a motorized lever pulls the leather bellows, creating negative pressure that induces her lungs to suck in air.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Iron Lungs are breathing assistance devices that were used to enable polio victims to survive. As polio recedes into memory here in the US (enough so that a lot of people have stopped vaccinating their kids for it, which might mean a sudden epidemic could bring it back big time), the number of people using … Continue reading “Iron Lungs”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,70,108],"tags":[1332],"class_list":["post-135440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-health-science","category-history","tag-polio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Iron-Lung.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40080,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/15\/short-term-gains-for-long-term-losses-polio-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":135440,"position":0},"title":"Short-term gains for long-term losses, Polio Edition","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 15-Dec-13 11:13pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The CIA used a polio vaccination team in Pakistan to gather info about Osama bin Laden's whereabouts. \u00a0Clever idea, right? 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