Today in History, February 2: Balto and the dogs of 1925's Great Serum Run

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In 1925, at the north-western edge of America, children of an icebound Alaskan town are dying.

The Bering Sea-bordered Nome is staring down an "almost inevitable" diphtheria epidemic.

It needs thousands of anti-toxin units to prevent disaster, and the town is all but cut off in the dead of winter.

There's only one answer, albeit treacherous and inherently risky: sled dogs.

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