“Franklin D. Roosevelt may not have had polio at all, but a paralyzing disease called Guillain-Barre syndrome, Texas researchers say.

‘We feel from the clinical evidence, which is all that exists, that it’s more likely that he had Guillain-Barre syndrome,’ said Dr. Armond S. Goldman, emeritus professor of pediatrics at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.

But Dr. Goldman added that polio could not be ruled out. ‘We felt it was unlikely, but we weren’t there,’ he said. He admitted that a different diagnosis ‘would not have changed a thing’ since there was no treatment at the time for Guillain-Barre.” —New York Times