2008 Iditarod Underway, Commemorating Heroism of 1925

In 1925, there was a severe outbreak of the diphtheria illness in Nome, Alaska. Modern transportation could not deliver medicine to the area due to a blizzard. Instead, serum was heroically brought to the city by way of dog sled teams.

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Posted at: 10.03.2008
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