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istara  ·  3248 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A horrifying reminder of what life without vaccines was really like.

This woman lived in an iron lung for 61 YEARS after being paralysed by polio at the age of eleven: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2450792/The-woman-lived-iron-lung-61-YEARS.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Mason_(writer)