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The disease that struck Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the prime of his life may not have been polio, as his doctors and history have believed. An analysis suggests that Roosevelt may have had Guillain-Barre Syndrome, a disease barely known by doctors of the day. Researchers reviewed Roosevelt's personal letters, medical reports and biographies that described the disease that FDR had in 1921 when he was 39. Armond Goldman, emeritus professor of pediatrics, and colleagues note that some of FDR's symptoms were rare in polio, but fit a diagnosis of Guillain-Barre, an autoimmune disease that damages motor and sensory nerves. Their diagnosis, is based on an analysis that examined the frequency of paralytic polio and Guillain-Barri in adults of Roosevelt's age at that time and the likelihood of his symptoms occurring in either of the two diseases. All his symptoms are consistent with Guillain-Barre Syndrome, named for the scientists who described the illness in two French soldiers in 1916...
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