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CNN 国际新闻
📌 标题：Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dies at 78 in Oklahoma
📅 发布时间：Updated Jul 11, 2026, 12:07 PM ET
📝 英文原文：
AP—Martha Lillard had just turned 5 when she was diagnosed with polio and depended on aniron lungto live. She died June 26 in Oklahoma, the last U.S. polio patient who used the machine, her sister said. She was 78.“They told her she wasn’t supposed to live past 20 years old,” Lillard’s younger sister, Cindy McVey, told The Associated Press on Friday. “She had the enthusiasm and the drive to continue living and make the best of her life.”McVey attributes her sister’s death to the effects of long-haul COVID-19. A death certificate lists causes as chronic pulmonary failure and post-polio syndrome, McVey said.Lillard slept in the iron lung cylinder that encased her body as the air pressure in the chamber forced air in and out of her lungs. As a child, she went to grade school for two hours a day and was tutored the rest of the time. She attended Shawnee High School by using a phone system that allowed her to interact with her teachers and classmates through an intercom in her classrooms.Her family went on road trips to Missouri thanks to a custom trailer and her father calling hotels to find out if they had doors wide enough to accommodate the machine Lillard slept in. Lillard was even able to drive for a time.“To me, it was just normal,” recalled McVey, 75.Polio was once one of the nation’s most feared diseases, with annual outbreaks causing thousands of cases of paralysis. The disease primarily affects children.Vaccines became available starting in 1955. According to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a national vaccination campaign cut the annual number of U.S. cases to fewer than 100 in the 1960s and fewer than 10 in the 1970s. In 1979, polio was declared eliminated in the U.S., meaning it was no longer routinely spread.Later the internet would help Lillard stay informed and learn about all sorts of topics, including her disease, which paralyzed her from the neck down.With therapy she was able to regain partial use of her left arm and use of her
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🇨🇳 中文翻译：
美联社——玛莎·利拉德 (Martha Lillard) 刚满 5 岁，就被诊断出患有小儿麻痹症，只能靠阿尼隆肺活下去。她的姐姐说，她于 6 月 26 日在俄克拉荷马州去世，这是最后一位使用该机器的美国脊髓灰质炎患者。她今年 78 岁。“他们告诉她，她不应该活过 20 岁，”利拉德的妹妹辛迪·麦克维 (Cindy McVey) 周五告诉美联社。 “她有继续生活并充分利用自己生活的热情和动力。”麦克维将她姐姐的死归因于长期的影响。
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