Paul Alexander, a Texas man who spent seven decades living in an iron lung after being diagnosed with polio in 1952, has died at the age of 78 according to his brother Philip. Paul Alexander became a social media sensation in recent months. Diagnosed at the age of 6 as the disease swept through Dallas, Alexander was left paralyzed from the neck down and dependent on an iron lung to breathe.
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Texas man who lived in iron lung for seven decades dies

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Paul Alexander, a Texas man known as Polio Paul who spent 70 years in an iron lung due to polio, died at 78.

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