KRT US NEWS STORY SLUGGED: MED-IRONLUNG KRT PHOTO BY JEAN PIERI/ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS (February 24) When she was nine years old, Marilyn Rogers developed polio, the paralyzing disease that swept the United States in the late 1940s. Within three days, she was encased in an iron lung at Minneapolis General Hospital, unable to breathe or move a muscle below her chin. Today, more than 55 years later, she lies motionless on her back in what experts believe is the last iron lung in Minnesota. (Photo

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