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 ...

Paul Alexander died March 11. He had spent over 70 years in an iron lung after contracting polio as a young child. ... a Canadian writer and children’s novelist in Winnipeg, ...

In this photo from April 27, 2018, attorney Paul Alexander looks out from inside his iron lung at his home in Dallas. Alexander died Monday, March 11, 2024, at a Dallas hospital.

Paul Alexander passed away on March 11, 2024, at the age of 78, after contracting COVID-19. His death marked the end of an era, as he was among the last individuals to rely on an iron lung.

Alexander contracted polio in 1952, when he was 6. He became paralyzed from the neck down and he began using an iron lung, a cylinder that encased his body as the air pressure in the chamber ...

DALLAS (AP) — Confined to an iron lung after contracting polio as a child, Paul Alexander managed to train himself to breathe on his own for part of the day, earned a law degree, wrote a book ...

Paul Alexander was paralysed from the neck down after contracting the virus in 1952. ... He was one of many children placed inside iron lungs during an outbreak of polio in the US during the 1950s.

Paul Alexander, a Dallas polio survivor who was one of the few people left in the U.S. using an iron lung, has died. He was 78.

Paul Alexander, 77, is the longest iron lung patient ever, per Guinness World Records. AP. A life-saving vaccine was approved and widely administered to children across the US in 1955.