Alaska’s Medicine Delivery Dogs
Did you know that the dogs who run sled races in Alaska helped save an entire town almost a century ago? The residents of Nome were suffering through a diphtheria outbreak that threatened to wipe out the whole village in 1925. The winter there was so bad that only a team of Siberian huskies could successfully make a run for life-saving drugs. Twenty teams of those incredible dogs ran 674 miles in horrible weather to take medicine from Nenana to Nome.