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BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaPerson in Texas diagnosed with rare bird flu after contact with cattlePublished22 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Bird flu can be fatal in poultry but appears to be less dangerous for cattleBy Madeline HalpertBBC NewsA person in Texas has tested positive for bird flu, the second US human case of the virus that has infected herds of dairy cows in recent weeks. State health officials said the patient had experienced eye redness after coming into contact with sick cows. The risk to the general public is low, experts said, but people should take precautions when around ill animals.The Texas patient is being treated with an antiviral drug and is isolating.Despite its name, the virus is not limited to birds, and in recent weeks it has been detected in cows in several states, including Texas, Kansas and Michigan. It does not normally spread to people, but human infections have occurred in rare cases around the world.In people, the virus, also known as avian flu, can cause symptoms that range from mild illness, such as upper respiratory and eye infections, to severe disease such as pneumonia that can be fatal, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)The first human case of H5N1 bird flu in the US occurred in 2022 in Colorado, when a person became ill after direct exposure to poultry presumed to be infected. That person experienced fatigue for a few days and made a full recovery. While avian flu is often fatal in poultry, it has been less lethal for cattle. The CDC advises people to avoid exposure to sick or dead animals including wild birds, poultry and cattle. The agency also says people should not eat uncooked or undercooked related food products such as unpasteurized milk and cheeses. Related TopicsTexasMore on this storyWhat is bird flu and what’s behind the outbreak?Published23 May 2023Bird flu infects penguins at famous wildlife havenPublished11 MarchTop StoriesLive. Senior Iranian commander killed in Israeli strike, says Iran state mediaIsraeli strike destroys Iranian consulate in Syria, says Iran state mediaPublished2 hours agoJK Rowling in ‘arrest me’ challenge over hate crime lawPublished6 hours agoFeaturesWill legalising cannabis unleash chaos in Germany?Is my family still alive? The daily question for HaitiansThe pothole signs that put a town in the spotlight’We bought a zoo and our lives turned upside down’Guardiola calls Liverpool ‘favourites’, but who will win title?AttributionSportBoxer’s premature baby inherits fighting spiritScotland’s controversial hate crime law… in 90 seconds. VideoScotland’s controversial hate crime law… in 90 secondsWhy morning light is so crucial to your health. VideoWhy morning light is so crucial to your healthFree childcare hours expands to two-year-oldsElsewhere on the BBCThe ultimate bromanceEnjoy the genius of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore with a journey through the archivesAttributioniPlayerProfessor Alice Roberts unearths her favourite musicThe scientist and Digging for Britain presenter is Lauren Laverne’s castawayAttributionSoundsWhy did four tragic murders spark an online obsession?The case racked up nearly two billion views on TikTok worldwideAttributioniPlayerCaffeine: Dangers and benefitsFind out what effects this drug can have on dementia and cardiovascular diseaseAttributionSoundsMost Read1Germany kit option blocked over Nazi symbolism2JK Rowling in ‘arrest me’ challenge over hate crime law3Twenty councillors quit Labour Party in protest4French toddler’s remains found but death a mystery5Israel accused of strike on Iran consulate in Syria6Crypt next to Marilyn Monroe’s sells for $195,0007’Facebook scammer tricked his way into our home’8’We bought a zoo and our lives turned upside down’9Investigation links ‘Havana Syndrome’ to Russia10Boxer’s premature baby inherits fighting spirit
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![BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountLiveNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityHealthThe man in the iron lung: How Paul Alexander lived life to the fullPublished9 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Philip AlexanderImage caption, Philip Alexander with his brother Paul, in his iron lung machineBy Catherine SnowdonBBC NewsPaul Alexander was six years old when he woke, terrified, to find himself inside a large metal tube, with only his head sticking out.He couldn’t move to feel what was trapping him, and when he tried to call for help, he discovered he couldn’t make a sound.Paul had survived a serious bout of polio, but had been left quadriplegic. After an emergency tracheostomy operation, he was unable to breathe without the iron lung machine that now encased his small body.When he died recently at the age of 78, Paul had spent more than seven decades using his iron lung, longer than anyone else in history. Image source, GoFundMeBut what was it that marked him out from so many of his peers, and kept him going?Polio ran riot in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, killing and maiming scores of children.What is polio and how does it spread?In hospital in Texas in 1952, Paul was surrounded by other children in similar predicaments. According to the World Health Organization, one in 200 polio infections leads to irreversible paralysis. Among those paralysed, 5-10% die when their breathing muscles become immobilised.Uncertain futureAfter two years in hospital, doctors began to cast doubt on Paul’s future.That led his parents to make the brave decision to take him and his iron lung home, to live out his days in peace. But instead of dying, Paul went from strength to strength, once he was home in his parents’ care.The iron lung uses a negative pressure system. Powered by a motor, its bellows suck air out of the cylinder, creating a vacuum around the patient’s body and forcing the lungs to expand and take in air. When the air is let back in, the same process in reverse makes the lungs deflate. The device needs a source of energy to function.During power cuts, the bellows had to be pumped by hand; neighbours would come to help with the job. Paul’s father designed an alarm bell that Paul could ring using his mouth if he needed urgent attention. Over time Paul learnt to consciously breathe by gulping down air, using his throat muscles to force air into his lungs. He called it frog-breathing.His younger brother, Philip, explained to the BBC that the promise of a puppy gave Paul the incentive to be brave, and attempt to spend time out of his iron lung to learn the complicated glossopharyngeal breathing technique, the medical term for frog-breathing.”He was scared of course of choking to death,” says Philip. “They told him if you last three minutes, you’ll get the dog that you want.” And he did.Image source, Rotary Club of Park Cities DallasImage caption, Paul with friend Kathy Gaines shortly after delivering a speech at an eventAs his confidence and strength grew, he was able to spend increasingly longer periods out of the iron lung. This allowed him to begin to experience a bit more of life. He was allowed to venture into the neighbourhood in his wheelchair with childhood friends, returning to the iron lung when he was tired.”He was just a normal brother to me. We fought, we played, we loved, we partied, we went to concerts together – he was just a normal brother,” says Philip.Paul finished school at home and went on to earn a college degree before setting his sights on law school.Image source, University of TexasImage caption, Fellow-students helped care for Paul while he studied lawPhilip recalls Paul’s time at the University of Texas in Austin as being “incredible”. His parents helped Paul move in with his iron lung, and then he was on his own – with limited help at first, after the carer he had hired failed to show up.”He didn’t really have any caregivers. He was in the dorm and different people just took care of him accidentally. They pushed him around campus [in his wheelchair],” says Philip.Paul went on to practise law in downtown Dallas. He had to deal with the surprise of clients on entering his office and seeing him in his iron lung.”It’s not an easy thing to see, just a head sticking out,” says Philip. “People immediately go into shock. I saw that happen a lot.”Paul lived alone for much of his adult life, no mean feat for someone unable to take care of his basic human needs like using the toilet or getting a drink on his own.This video can not be playedTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.Media caption, Watch: Philip Alexander remembers his brother, ‘the man in the iron lung’Philip says he became the master of his own domain, helping people to help him.”He needed a unique type of care. Not even professionals are trained to take care of a quadriplegic in an iron lung,” says Philip of the huge responsibility that came with supporting his brother.”Most of the care was basic – shaving and feeding for example. But to move him you needed to be careful not to jam his finger and so on.” There was no instruction manual for those who answered Paul’s adverts for caregivers. “They learned as they went,” says Philip. “And many left after a day or two. I remember going around once and asking a couple of assisted living centres if they could care for him, and the looks on their faces were priceless.”Paul had one carer who was in his life for decades. When Kathy Gaines died, her passing left Paul bereft.Philip says he always saw himself as the back-up carer for his brother, but he admired the support system Paul built: “He had a lot of wonderful friends, some really beautiful people in his life.”Help neededOne of those people came into Paul’s life in a moment of dire need.In 2015, his iron lung began to leak. As the machines were by now extremely rare, it was a race against time to find someone able to carry out the vital repair job to make it airtight once more.After a plea was posted on social media, responses came in from around the world. But the solution turned out to be much closer to home.Ten miles down the road from Paul’s apartment in Dallas, was the mechanical durability business Environmental Testing Laboratory, owned by Brady Richards.Mr Richards had come into possession of two iron lung machines at a building clearance and he recalls how one day a paramedic walked in asking: “Is this the place I can find iron lungs?”The medic had been transporting Paul to and from hospital, as carers fought to keep him alive in the failing iron lung. As the situation became more desperate, word of mouth had brought her to Mr Richards.Image source, Brady RichardsImage caption, Brady Richards at his warehouse with one of Paul’s iron lung machines”I did not have any idea about Paul Alexander at that time,” says Mr Richards. On learning about the emergency, he immediately set about rebuilding one of the broken machines he had in his warehouse. He built some parts from scratch and scavenged others from other devices, learning as he went along: “Iron lungs are very robust machines. They are built to last. “It’s a simple machine so I managed to work it out. You can increase and decrease the breathing rate and the pressure. Paul always liked the settings up high.”Once the refurbished machine was ready, Mr Richards swapped it for the damaged one at Paul’s apartment. He wouldn’t accept any money for his work.But that wasn’t the end of the story. Later that night Mr Richards received a call from Paul’s carer to say the machine wasn’t working.Mr Richards returned to Paul’s apartment and quickly realised the neck collar wasn’t on properly and had come loose.”Paul was saying ‘I’m fine, I’m OK’ as we worked to correct the problem,” recalls Mr Richards. “The truth was, he was turning blue.”In moments of desperation like these, Paul had access to more portable breathing devices, which used a different sort of technology to the iron lung.”Positive pressure respirators can make the patient feel like they have their head stuck out of the car window. Not everyone likes that sensation” explains Dr Patrick Murphy, the clinical lead consultant at the Lane Fox respiratory unit at St Thomas’ Hospital, in London.Paul never moved full-time to these mask-based devices. Another polio survivor, living in York, in northern England, did make the switch.Image source, James PorteousImage caption, James Porteous receiving his MBEJames Porteous, 78, was infected with polio in the same year as Paul. He was initially placed in an iron lung. He recovered to a point where he could live his life without significant breathing support, but as is often the case for polio survivors, as he aged he began to need more help. He now uses a respirator mask for about 17 hours a day: “I don’t remember much about being in the iron lung. I was also placed in a head-to-toe plaster cast initially as the thought was that this would prevent my limbs from becoming deformed,” says Mr Porteous, who is the regional president of the British Polio Fellowship. Mr Porteous had a long career, first in stockbroking and then in various senior roles for Rowntree’s, which became part of Nestlé. He married and has four daughters. He travelled the world and in 2001 he was awarded an MBE for services to the community.Image source, James PorteousImage caption, James Porteous in his specially adapted company car”I could have sat all my life with a rug over my knees, but I decided to just get on with it. I’m tired these days and I don’t get out much any more, but life is good. I have a nice family and good friends. One thing I’d still like to see achieved in my lifetime is the complete eradication of polio around the world,” he says.Ending polio globally was also Paul’s ambition. He wrote about it in his 2020 memoir, which he typed himself, using a pencil attached to a stick gripped in his mouth to reach the computer keyboard.Philip says it was after the book was published that he fully realised what an inspiration his brother was to people around the world: “His personality had a lot to do with how much he was admired. He had that great big smile and he was such a welcoming, warm person. He made people comfortable.”Brady Richards remained involved in Paul’s life over the years. He helped Paul move apartments when needed, and serviced the iron lung regularly: “It was always a pleasure to be around Paul – he had a very upbeat and positive attitude.” Image source, NHSImage caption, Dr Murphy says Paul’s parents and other carers were braveDr Murphy is full of admiration for the people who cared for Paul.”His parents took their son home in a machine that was at the time relatively high-end technology. He also had a tracheostomy, which calls for special care. They will have needed to be engineers, nurses and doctors. “If you speak to lots of trained doctors or nurses they won’t be confident in managing a patient with complex respiratory failure, and yet patients like Paul and their families do it at home on their own. The bravery cannot be underestimated,” says Dr Murphy.World recordLast year Paul was recognised by Guinness World Records as the person who had lived the longest in an iron lung.Philip’s admiration for his brother runs deep: “I saw him go through a lot of struggles in his life. I’m going to miss him. I called him when I needed to talk to someone about any kind of problem I had.”He says that while the rest of the world might be amazed by how long his brother survived in his iron lung, his parents would not have been: “They believed in him. They gave him so much strength and love. They wouldn’t have been shocked.” Related TopicsHealthChild healthMore on this story’Man in the iron lung’ Paul Alexander dies at 78Published13 MarchSuper-engineered vaccines created to help end polioPublished14 June 2023What is polio and how can you protect yourself?Published10 August 2022Top StoriesLive. 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![BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountLiveNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaSan Quentin begins prison reform – but not for those on death rowPublished7 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Keith DoolinImage caption, Keith Doolin and his mother, Donna Larsen, are worried about his transfer to another California prisonBy Madeline HalpertBBC News, New YorkCalifornia is transferring everyone on death row at San Quentin prison to other places, as it tries to reinvent the state’s most notorious facility as a rehabilitation centre. Many in this group will now have new freedoms. But they are also asking why they’ve been excluded from the reform – and whether they’ll be safe in new prisons.Keith Doolin still remembers the day in 2019 when workers came to dismantle one of the United States’ most infamous death chambers. He was in his cell at San Quentin prison on the north side of San Francisco Bay, watching live footage on television showing an execution chair – where 194 people had been put to death – carried away after more than 80 years of use. The green gas chamber being taken apart was just several hundred feet from where he sat.A former long-distance truck driver convicted of murder, Doolin has spent nearly 23 hours a day for the last 28 years in a tiny cell. He long worried he would one day be shackled to a mint-green chair and executed.But in the last few years, California has been moving fast with some plans for prison reform. Governor Gavin Newsom’s decision to deconstruct the death chamber – and also place a moratorium on the death penalty in the state – was a watershed moment for Doolin.”He [Newsom] was sending the message: ‘Look, it might take a while, but things are going to change’.”Mr Newsom is now seeking more changes at San Quentin, which currently has the nation’s largest death row. The governor announced last year that he planned to transform the state’s oldest prison into a rehabilitation centre. He will close the prison’s death row unit and move Doolin and the other 532 death row inhabitants to standard prisons across the state in the coming months (70 have been moved already). Doolin and his neighbours will still have death sentences – meaning they will spend the rest of their lives in prison. For some, the threat of execution still looms large, as a future governor could reinstate the state’s death penalty. Six people on death row who spoke to the BBC over the phone shared mixed feelings about their move. Some were elated by the opportunity to live closer to family and step outside their cells without handcuffs, while others were terrified at the prospect of starting over after decades living alone in a cell.Image source, Getty ImagesRats, birds and handcuffs: Life on death rowBuilt in 1852, San Quentin is California’s oldest prison and the state’s only facility for incarcerated males who have been sentenced to death. Since 1893, 422 people have been executed there, including by gas, hanging or lethal injection. Family members walk by the entrance to the prison’s execution chamber every time they visit their loved ones, said Doolin’s mother, Donna Larsen, who drives a nine-hour round trip once a month to visit her son.The execution chamber would emit a green light that turned red as a person was being executed, a sight visible to Californians driving by on the highway, she said. This green room of death – and infamous inmates such as cult leader Charles Manson – have brought international notoriety to San Quentin, featured in podcasts, television shows and films.When Ramon Rogers arrived at the prison in 1996, rain leaked through the ceiling of the death row unit, and mice and rats would run rampant. But the biggest pests, he said, were the birds. “They started defecating all over the place – all over the railings,” he said. “It was a gross environment.”Since then, life on death row has remained restrictive and, at times, hazardous. An outbreak of Covid-19 during the height of the pandemic killed at least 12 death row inmates – part of a wider coronavirus surge at the prison that infected 75% of the population.Ms Larsen – Doolin’s mother – said she was shocked by how dirty the prison was the first time she visited. “It had a stench to it,” she said. “Sometimes Keith’s clothing smells mouldy when we visit. To know that your loved one is living in that made me sick.”Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Those imprisoned in San Quentin’s death row spend nearly all of the day in their cellsPeople housed in San Quentin’s death row are kept alone for most of the day in a roughly four foot (1.2m) by nine foot (2.7m) cell, a space that Doolin said feels like a “sardine can”. The 51-year-old was sentenced to death in 1996 for killing two sex workers and shooting four others. Doolin has maintained his innocence, and a California attorney has alleged that he has information learned while working on another case that could potentially exonerate him. But the lawyer, David Mugridge, told the BBC that he could not share the details due to attorney-client privilege.Doolin and others living on death row are required to wear handcuffs at all times when outside their cells, which officers have to unlock with metal keys after strip-searching them. Image source, CDCRImage caption, A photo of one of the cells, provided by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation”Our daily life confinement is based on going from one box to another,” said another inmate, Tony, who declined to share his last name for privacy reasons.Death row inmates are offered little access to rehabilitative programmes except for some college courses and jobs such as cleaning showers.Ending death rowIn March 2019, Governor Newsom issued an executive order that halted the death penalty in the state and ordered the dismantling of the gas chamber in San Quentin. Mr Newsom’s move did not alter any incarcerated individuals’ sentences, though he said that he might later consider commuting death row sentences.While the state had not actually performed an execution since 2006, Mr Newsom argued the death penalty system had been “by all measures, a failure” that was unfairly applied to people of colour and people with mental illness. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, black people comprise 34% of California’s death row, but only 6% of the state’s population. Since 1973, seven people on death row in the state have been exonerated. Preparing for bigger changes, Mr Newsom announced a two-year pilot programme in 2020 to transfer around 100 volunteers from San Quentin’s death row to other prisons, the first move in his bigger plan to eventually move all the inmates out, to more than 20 other prisons that meet security requirements.Correll Thomas left San Quentin with the pilot programme in 2021 after being on death row since 1999.But at Centinela prison, in Imperial, California, settling in was a struggle. “They didn’t want to give us [rehabilitation] programs,” he said. “We had to pretty much fight for everything.”Image source, Correll ThomasImage caption, Correll Thomas was happy to have the chance to leave San Quentin death rowOther prisoners and staff appeared frightened of his death row status, said Thomas, who added that with time, some at the prison grew to accept him.Ramon Rogers, the inmate who first arrived at San Quentin in 1986 when birds and rats had overrun the facility, said the move was welcome. “I didn’t care where they sent me, I just knew anywhere else would be better,” he said.Now at the Richard Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego, Rogers, 64, has been able to enrol not just in rehabilitation programmes but also college.The greatest relief, he said, came from not having to wear handcuffs around the clock outside his cell for the first time in decades.”Sometimes, I’m amazed at what I’m allowed to do here that I would never be able to do on death row.”Starting over But some advocates say not enough support is being offered as these inmates make a drastic transition. There is a “huge difference” between the people on death row who chose to leave and those being forced to move now, said Gavrilah Wells, a volunteer with human rights group Amnesty International. “I’m so worried about the safety and the human rights of so many people being involuntarily transferred,” she said. “The massive endeavour of rapidly moving 550 people to unknown prisons, with unknown cultures specific to each facility, raises serious concerns.”Ms Wells and other advocates say moving the death row population, which includes many who are sick and elderly, poses great challenges. The oldest person in San Quentin’s death row is 93. “It’s not the same as just transferring any person in prison,” said Natasha Minsker, a policy adviser for non-profit Smart Justice California. Advocates worry about those being moved far away from their lawyers and family members, and how they will adjust after decades living alone in a cell.”These guys have never lived with anyone but themselves,” Tony said. “They’re going to have to learn how to do things all over again.”Image source, Keith DoolinImage caption, Doolin is worried about starting over and avoiding conflict in a new prison with a new cultureDoolin is anxious about avoiding conflict as he interacts with more people than ever before, including prison guards. “It’s extremely stressful,” he said. “I’m forced to start all over again like my first day in prison.”Ms Larsen, Doolin’s mother, said she and others suggested programmes to offer support to their incarcerated loved ones as they made the transition, but the prison turned them down. ‘We still have humanity’For several death row inhabitants, the anxieties of a new environment are outweighed by the prospect of breaking free from a dismal life in San Quentin. “For some people, it’s a godsend,” Tony said. “They want to leave this oppression.” But for others, the departure from San Quentin before its estimated $360m (£282m) upgrade has only served as a reminder of their inferior status as condemned people. Mr Newsom has said the goal is to transform the prison into a college campus-like setting, modelled on Scandinavian correctional facilities that focus on rehabilitation.In response to a question from the BBC on how people on death row fit into the state’s larger plans for prison reform, Mr Newsom’s office said he was committed to “addressing failings in our criminal justice system – including the discriminatory nature of the death penalty system”. Mr Newsom’s office did not elaborate on why people on death row could not participate in the San Quentin project, but touted the closure of death row and his moratorium on the death penalty.The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said all the death row inmates had to be moved because San Quentin did not have the “required lethal electrified fence”. It did not respond when asked why that had been okay up to this point. It also did not respond to questions about support being offered to transfers.Darrell Lomax, one of the men in San Quentin, said: “It’s not what they’re doing. It’s the way they’re doing it… Why are we being moved so they can make room for a rehabilitation program that doesn’t even serve us?” The arrangement sends the “unfortunate” message that one of the biggest prison reform projects in the US can’t include people sentenced to death, Ms Minsker said. Tony believes some in California are still not ready to reckon with the status – and future – of those sentenced to death, even in a state that is not executing people.”There’s a notion that because we’re here, it’s the end of the road,” he said. “But we still have humanity in this place. 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