Balto and his sled driver, Gunnar Kasson, at the unveiling of Central Park's Balto statue in 1925. Bettmann / Contributor via Getty Images In early 1925, a relay of sled dog teams carried a lifesaving ...
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The true story of Balto, the husky who saved a small town in Alaska
In 1925, a diphtheria outbreak threatened to destroy the small town of Nome, Alaska. Then, 20 mushers put together to get a ...
In 1925, a Siberian husky named Balto was part of a dog-sled team that raced across Alaska to deliver a serum to combat a diphtheria epidemic in Nome. These were some of the protestations to his evil ...
In January 1925, doctors in Nome, Alaska saw the stirrings of a diphtheria outbreak, a deadly infectious disease. The closest city with the antidote (a simple antibiotic) was Anchorage, 500 miles away ...
While watching the news this past week about the arrival of the COVID-19 vaccine, the former Borough Historian of Manhattan, Michael Miscione was reminded of something: that dog statue in Central Park ...
Balto and his owner, Gunnar Kasson, circa 1925. (Image credit: Cleveland Public Library/Photograph Collection) After Balto died in 1933 at the Cleveland Zoo, his taxidermy mount was put on display at ...
It's been nearly 100 years since Balto the sled dog helped save children in Nome, Alaska from a diphtheria outbreak. Now, scientists are studying his ancient DNA to reveal what made the Siberian husky ...
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