Martha Lillard, the last polio patient in the US who used an iron lung, dies at 78 in Oklahoma0

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• July 11, 2026

Martha Lillard had just turned 5 when she was diagnosed with polio and depended on an iron lung to live. He died June 26 in Oklahoma and was the last polio patient in the United States to use the machine, his sister said. She was 78 years old. “They told him he wasn’t supposed to