Paul R. Alexander, 72, Thursday, September 12, 2019, in his apartment in Dallas, Texas. Alexander is one of the few people left who uses an iron lung to help breathing. Alexander suffered from polio at age 6.
When he was six, Paul Alexander contracted polio and was paralysed for life. Today he is 74, and one of the last people in the world still using an iron lung. But after surviving one deadly outbreak, he did not expect to find himself threatened by another.
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A lifelong victim of polio who has been trapped in an iron lung for 70 years. Credit: CNN

President-elect Donald Trump has praised the polio vaccine as the “greatest thing,” but a lawyer affiliated with Trump’s pick to lead the country’s top heath agency has petitioned the US Food and Drug Administration to revoke approval of the vaccine used in the United States.

The lawyer, Aaron Siri, filed the petition in 2022 on behalf of the Informed Consent Action Network, or ICAN, a nonprofit that challenges […]

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