The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome was hundreds of miles from anywhere, cut off by the frozen sea and under siege from a contagious disease known as the “strangling angel” for the way it suffocated children.
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In this image published on Jan. 23, 1928, and provided by the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, NYWT&S Collection, shows Leonhard Seppala winner of the first annual sled dog race held at the Lake Placid Club Seven teams competed in Lake Placid, N.Y. “People just dropped whatever they were doing," she said."These mushers got their teams ready and went, even though it was really cold and challenging conditions on the trail.”
Within months, that changed. In a telegram, Welch pleaded with the U.S. Public Health Service to send serum:"An epidemic of diphtheria is almost inevitable here.” Instead, officials shipped the serum by rail to Nenana in interior Alaska, some 675 miles from Nome via the frozen Yukon River and mail trails.
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