Serum Run to Nome: Balto's Heroic Antitoxin Dash
Twenty mushers and their sled dog teams completed a 674-mile relay across frozen Alaska to deliver diphtheria antitoxin to the isolated town of Nome, saving the community from a deadly epidemic. Lead dog Balto became a national hero, immortalized with a statue in Central Park, and the feat inspired the annual Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
February 15, 1925
101 years ago
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