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A woman who defied medical odds and spent her life living in an iron lung died after a power cut shut down the machine helping her breathe.
Dianne Odell, 61, had been confined to the 7ft-long metal tube since contracting polio when she was three.
Her home near Memphis, Tennessee, suffered a lengthy power failure and relatives were unable to start a back-up generator? Brother-in law Will Beyer said: ''We did everything we could do but we couldn't keep her breathing. |
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