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		nsavage on Oct 7, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Global eradication of wild poliovirus type 2 decla... Not to discredit what you are saying or how amazing the success of human ingenuity has been, FDR might not have had polio. Modern research seems to imply that he actually had Guillian-Barre Syndrome. The Roosevelt family wouldn't let them exhume his body, so we probably will never know. Either way, there was no cure in FDR's life and his treatment would largely have been the same. Just food for thought! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt%27s_para...

zymhan on Oct 7, 2015 [–]

Reading that section, it's actually not clear at all that he had Guillian-Barré syndrome, it's just a possibility.

nsavage on Oct 7, 2015 | [–]

Yeah, exactly. We probably will never know, but it is just possible that the most famous case of polio actually didn't have polio at all.

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