TIL a polio victim was kept alive in a metal tube for nearly 60 years only to die when a power outage shut her iron lung down.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/24859306/ns/health-health_care/t/us-woman-dies-iron-lung-after-power-failure



Submitted April 13, 2015 at 07:41AM by garglemymarbles http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/32eawq/til_a_polio_victim_was_kept_alive_in_a_metal_tube/