The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome was hundreds of miles from anywhere and under siege from a contagious disease known as the ...
One hundred years ago an outbreak of the deadly disease in the Alaskan outpost of Nome caught the world’s attention.
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Zero-dose immunisation, diphtheria fuel Kano’s high maternal, child deaths – CommissionerThe high prevalence of diphtheria and the challenge of zero-dose immunisation have been identified as major factors ...
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The Animal Story That RFK Jr. Should KnowJust outside New York City’s Central Park Zoo, not far from where Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once stealthily deposited a dead bear ...
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A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Feb. 2, 1925, the legendary Alaska Serum ...
Balto and a portion of the team were confined to the back room Los Angeles dime museum before they were purchased by a ...
A 10-year-old boy in Berlin has died from diphtheria, a highly infectious disease, because he was not vaccinated. The case, ...
Recent health news includes European agencies monitoring bird flu, a diphtheria death in Berlin, and controversies ...
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has issued an alert on respiratory diphtheria that has been present since 2024. Diphtheria is a severe bacterial illness that often affects ...
A terrible death drama in Berlin involving a ten-year-old boy that could have been prevented by a single jab: the schoolboy ...
The historic trek to neutralize the diphtheria epidemic in Nome Diphtheria is an airborne disease that causes a thick, suffocating film to develop at the back of the throat; it was once a leading ...
Nome, Alaska, remembers its saviors — the sled dogs and mushers who raced for more than five days through hypothermia, ...
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