Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A portion of the famed Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race covers the route that Balto and his team took to deliver their serum almost ...
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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You've probably heard of the famous Iditarod sled dog race that takes place in Alaska each year, but did you know about the brave ...
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 ...
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 ...
New York's Central Park has a statue dedicated to him, and there's even been a movie about him: a sled dog named Balto. Now he is the focus of a DNA study, 90 years after he died, to see what made the ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. One dog led the way through a deadly blizzard. With Nome’s ...