Paul Alexander: ‘Man in the iron lung’ dies after living in tank for 70 years
A man who lived inside an ‘iron lung’ for seven decades after contracting polio as a child has died.
Paul Alexander was paralysed from the neck down after contracting the virus in 1952. He died on Monday after being taken to hospital with Covid.
When he was six years old, Mr Alexander was rushed to hospital after falling ill with a fever and aching limbs.
