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An article about the 1925 dogsled relay when 20 mushers and 150 sled dogs combined to carry a batch of life-saving diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, Alaska. ... 2018 Share. The 10,000 people living in and around Nome, Alaska, were in desperate straits in January 1925. It was the dead of winter, howling winds, snow and ice, with bitterly cold ...
In January 1925, the tiny village of Nome in west Alaska was home to fewer than 1,500 people, including Indigenous Alaskans and European immigrants. That month, there was an outbreak of diphtheria, a disease that spreads through respiratory droplets and creates a deadly toxin.Diphtheria is especially contagious and dangerous among young children — several children had died before Nome's ...
THE 1925 SERUM RUN. This is the story of how sled dogs saved the town of Nome, Alaska, and how dogs like Balto and Togo became internationally known. In January 1925, the only doctor in Nome, a former gold rush town on the western edge of Alaska, examined some desperately ill children. He became alarmed.
In January 1925, residents of Nome, Alaska, faced a horrific epidemic of diphtheria. Seven people were dead, 19 people were sick, and 150 were under surveillance for infection in a town of just 1,400 people. With the only cure hundreds of miles away, it seemed that the town was in danger of being decimated — until a dog named Balto helped ...
The port was frozen, and planes couldn't operate safely in the cold, let alone land. ... On the evening of January 24, 1925, Seppala was called on by Nome's authorities to spearhead what would ...
Some brave men and even braver dogs saved the lives of an entire town in 1925-by racing through blizzard conditions to deliver life-saving medicine. This was the Serum Run, the inspiration for today's Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. The situation was grim in Nome, Alaska, in January 1925. It wasn't just the numbing cold and heavy snow and winds.
On the night of January 27, 1925, a train whistle pierced Nenana's stillness as it arrived with the precious cargo—a 20-pound package of serum wrapped in protective fur. Musher "Wild Bill ...
It was January 1925 when the only doctor in Nome, Alaska, began to see cases of highly infectious diphtheria. He had ordered new antitoxin after the previous batch had expired, but this had failed to arrive before the port iced up for the winter. Attempting to use the old antitoxin failed and children began to die.
January 25, 1925 Serum Run. A 20-lb cylinder containing the antitoxin shipped as far as it could by rail, arriving at Nenana, 674 miles from Nome. ... and/or nasal cavities of its victims. Early symptoms resemble a cold or flu, in which fever, sore throat, and chills lead to bluish skin coloration, painful swallowing, and difficulty breathing. ...
Three vintage biplanes were available, but all were in pieces, and none would start in the sub-arctic cold. The antitoxin would have to go the rest of the way, by dog sled. It was 9:00pm and −50°F on January 27, when "Wild Bill" Shannon and his nine dog team received the 20-pound cylinder of serum.