Last American polio survivor in an iron lung dies at 78
She lived more than 70 years at the mercy of the machine.
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Last American polio survivor in an iron lung dies at 78
She lived more than 70 years at the mercy of the machine.
Children found living in unsafe conditions at squalid Northeast Philadelphia home with dead animals
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