Man who has lived inside 7ft iron lung for 70 years ‘shouldn’t be alive’ – The Sun

A MAN has shocked doctors after surviving inside an iron lung for over seven decades.

Paul Alexander, dubbed ‘polio Paul’, has lived inside the lung ventilator ever since he contracted the deadly disease in 1952 – when he was just six-years old.

“I lost everything: the ability to move, my legs would not hold me up and then I couldn’t breathe,” Paul, now 77 said.

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