Liam Scheff has an indepth research on his website about polio. It is a toxicity, not a virus. It coincided with DDT. Yes, Guillan Barre syndrome is the same as polio. There are also lots of other names like meningitis.

The Poison Cause of Poliomyelitis
and Obstructions to Its Investigation

by Ralph R. Scobey, M.D. Syracuse, N.Y.

Statement prepared for the Select Committee  to Investigate the Use of Chemicals in Food Products, United States House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.

From Archive Of Pediatrics (April, 1952):
The disease that we now know as poliomyelitis was not designated as such until about the middle of the 19th Century. Prior to that, it was designated by many different names at various times and in different localities. The simple designations, paralysis, palsy and apoplexy, were some of the earliest names applied to what is now called poliomyelitis.

Paralysis, resulting from poisoning, has probably been known since the time of Hippocrates (460-437 B.C.)…

Read much more at Rethinking Polio | LiamScheff.com.