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DALLAS (AP) — A Texas man who spent most of his 78 years using an iron lung chamber and built a large following on social media, recounting his life from

A Texas man who spent most of his 78 years using an iron lung chamber and built a large following on social media, recounting his life from contracting polio in the 1940s to earning a law degree, has died.

Alexander was 6 when he began using an iron lung, a cylinder that encased his body as the air pressure in the chamber forced air into and out of his lungs.

A Texas man who spent most of his 78 years using an iron lung chamber and built a large following on social media, recounting his life from contracting polio in the 1940s to earning a law degree, has died.

Alexander was six when he began using an iron lung, a cylinder that encased his body as the air pressure in...

A man who had spent about seven decades using an iron lung chamber has died at the age of 78.

Polio was once one of the nation's most feared diseases, with annual outbreaks causing thousands of cases of paralysis. The disease primarily affects children.

A Texas man who spent most of his 78 years using an iron lung chamber and built a large following on social media, recounting his life from contracting polio in the 1940s to earning a law degree, has died.

A Texas man who spent decades using an iron lung after contracting polio as a child has died at the age of 78. Paul Alexanders longtime friend Daniel Spinks says

Despite being paralysed from the neck down Paul Alexander studied for degrees in economics and law.