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Community => Science and Technology => Topic started by: dpareja on November 22, 2017, 07:22:32 pm

Title: There's still someone using an iron lung
Post by: dpareja on November 22, 2017, 07:22:32 pm
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-wednesday-edition-1.4414077/this-lawyer-is-one-of-the-last-people-alive-who-still-uses-an-iron-lung-1.4414081

This guy woke up in an iron lung when he was six and he still uses it today--he prefers it to newer technologies.

But remember when we thought we'd wipe out polio? Then Muslim extremists got in the way, someone got polio and took it to Mecca, and now it's running rampant again.