Miller, Debbie S. The Great Serum Race: Blazing the Iditarod Trail.Il. by Jon Van Zyle. ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 0-8027-8811-4. New York: Walker & Company, 2002. Unp. $17.95. Every March, the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race U.S. dogsled race. It is held each March and run over a route between Anchorage and Nome, Alaska. It originated in 1967 as a race of about 25 mi (40 km), but by 1973 it had evolved into the current race, a 1,100-mi (1,800-km) trek roughly tracing commemorates the heroic journey of 20 men and 160 dogs who, in 1925, braved Alaska's extreme cold, dangerous trails, winter conditions, darkness, and, finally, exhaustion to save 1,400 strangers from deadly diphtheria diphtheria (dĭfthēr`ēə), acute contagious disease caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae (Klebs-Loffler bacillus) bacteria that have been infected by a bacteriophage. It begins as a soreness of the throat with fever. . Accompanied by Van Zyle's steely blue illustrations of the frozen landscape, Miller's text chronicles how mushers responded to an urgent plea for antitoxin antitoxin, any of a group of antibodies formed in the body as a response to the introduction of poisonous products, or toxins. By introducing small amounts of a specific toxin into the healthy body, it is possible to stimulate the production of antitoxin so that the serum from the quarantined town of Nome. In only five-and-a-half days, relays of men and their dog teams traveled 674 miles--stopping only to warm the serum at each relay. Ages 7-12.--G.H. |
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