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What disease did President Franklin D. Roosevelt become infected with in 1921?
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∙ 13y ago
Franklin Roosevelt contracted polio which left him paralyzed from the waist down. He had to have a wheelchair to get around after that.
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What paralyzing disease did President Roosevelt have?
Franklin D. Roosevelt had polio.
Did Franklin Roosevelt lose the use of his legs?
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's legs were paralyzed due to poliomyelitis in 1921.
Did Franklin D. Roosevelt suffer from polio?
President Franklin Roosevelt was diagnosed with Polio in 1921 when he was 39 years of age. The disease left him permanently paralyzed from the waist down.YES! and no he was not born with it
What viral disease that causes muscle weakness paralysis and sometimes death was President Franklin D. Roosevelt affected by?
NSF/ NFD disease
What president was mostly confined to a wheelchair while in office?
Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 33rd President, served from 1933 to 1945. As a result of being stricken by a paralytic disease in 1921 (either polio or Guillain-Barré Syndrome) he had virtually no ability to walk while President.
What disease did Franklin Roosevelt contract when he was 39?
polio
What kind of diseases did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?
Addison's disease
What disease left Franklin Delano Roosevelt paralyzed?
Polio
What disease left Franklin Delano Roosevelt's legs paralyzed?
Polio
What disease did Franklin D. Roosevelt jr die in 1909?
influenza
What happened to Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Roosevelt suffered from polio. The disease caused him to be paralyzed from the chest down.
Why was Franklin Deleno Roosevelt in a wheelchair?
He had had polio, a crippling and killing disease, when he was young.
