Posted by Jason Beaubien  - NPR's Global Health and Development Correspondent on the Science Desk on Oct 30, 2015

The title: Next Year Could Mark The End Of Polio.

The disease that once paralyzed hundreds of thousands of kids a year around the globe is now down to just a few dozen cases this year. "We are aiming to halt all transmission of wild polio virus next year," says Peter Crowley, the head of UNICEF's global efforts against polio. If polio is stopped, it will be only the second human disease to be eliminated. Smallpox was the first — the last case was in 1977. There's reason to be optimistic that this gigantic feat of public health is within humanity's grasp  Click here to read the rest of this amazing picture of the Polio Story  .........