Iditarod - Decades TV Network

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Channel: Decades TV Network · 2016 · People & Blogs

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The Iditarod was born out of determination to transport life-saving medicine to Nome, Alaska. The “Great Race of Mercy” began when more than a dozen men and a hundred sled dogs set off on a 674-mile relay across Alaska. Less than six days later, on February 2, 1925, the antitoxin serum to stop the diphtheria outbreak was delivered.

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