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A century ago, there was a race against time to fight a deadly outbreak
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada has benefitted from efficient, modern shipping methods to import vaccine doses from abroad. As Ainsley Hawthorn explains in her latest Apocalypse Then column, transporting medicine during previous disease outbreaks was a challenge that required remarkable effort.
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In 1925, teams of sled dogs transported medicine to stop a diphtheria outbreak in an isolated Alaskan town
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The True Story Behind The 1925 Nome Serum Run Public Domain
By Natasha Lavender/March 3, 2021 11:46 am EDT
Nearly a century ago, the discovery of a deadly and highly contagious disease in a remote Alaskan town sparked a heroic effort to deliver an antidote. Twenty teams of sled dogs raced across the frozen landscape, through whiteout blizzards, to transport the serum across land wrought largely inaccessible by harsh winter conditions. This great human and canine achievement came to be known as the Nome serum run or the Great Race of Mercy.
But today, most of the story has been forgotten, simplified in the media and movies that only focus on a handful of participants. For example, you may have heard of Balto, but do you know Leonhard Seppala? The true story behind the 1925 Nome serum run is even more daring and more impressive, including a 670-mile relay, a near miss, a potentially deadly shortcut, and the trusting relationship between sled dogs and their mushe