Poland Spring Resort celebrates the Seppala Siberian Sleddog’s official designation as the official state dog of Maine. The ...

Medical examinations confirmed that 12 of them had early signs of the disease, and they were immediately placed on treatment, receiving antibiotics and diphtheria antitoxin serum. SaharaReporters ...

The antitoxin used to treat it was developed ... Welch pleaded with the U.S. Public Health Service to send serum: "An epidemic of diphtheria is almost inevitable here." The first death was a ...

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The concept of antitoxin serum is an old one that goes back to the late 19th century, and not just for snakes. Scientists made treatments for bacterial diseases such as diphtheria by infecting horses, ...

The Serum Run was a heroic effort by 20 mushers and 150 sled dogs to bring a diphtheria antitoxin across 674 miles of Alaska to save residents of the town of Nome, Alaska from a deadly diphtheria ...

I n early 1925, an outbreak of diphtheria threatened to wipe out the entire population of Nome, a remote gold rush town in ...