Use the following questions to guide you in filling in information for the summary. a. How was diphtheria treated at the time?

b. Why was getting the antitoxin to Nome a problem?

c. How is the medicine being delivered to Nome?

d. What kinds of conditions did the teams travel in?

e. How long did the trip take?

In the winter of 1925, disaster struck the town of Nome, Alaska. There was an outbreak of a deadly infection called diphtheria. Diphtheria , but the town of Nome did not have a fresh supply. The closest supply was hundreds of miles away in a city called Anchorage, and it would be nearly impossible to transport the medicine from Anchorage to Nome because . So Nome’s officials came up with a plan: . The mushers and their dogs . Nevertheless, the teams persevered and delivered the medicine to Nome in .The diphtheria outbreak was stopped and hundreds of lives were saved.