Cities and Such
What was the name of the disease that Dr. Welch recognized with the village children?
What is diphtheria?
Difficult or dangerous situation such as rock climbing or carrying serum from Anchorage to Nome
What is treacherous?
Dr. Welch immediately met with the city concerning the seriousness of the disease and recommended that the town be placed under ______________ for the safety of all of their citizens.
What is quarantine?
His _________ was extremely high.
What is fever?
What country in south of Alaska?
What is Canada?
In what year was "The Great Serum Race"?
Mysterious or scary
Bill was the first of twenty __________ to carry the serum in a dog relay to Nome.
What is a musher?
The weak child had a swollen and red _______.
What is throat?
What country does Alaska belong to since 1959?
What is the United States?
_____ dogs were used to transport the serum
What are sled?
To walk through water
What is wade?
Bill covered the ______ with a bear hide in order to keep the serum from freezing.
What is bear?
Is diphtheria a virus or a bacterial infection?
What is bacterial?
What was the name of the doctor? Hint: It starts with a "W".
Who is Dr. Welch?
The serum must be transported to what city or village in Alaska
What is Nome?
An illness that spreads and many people are affected
What is an epidemic?
There were _________ dogs that died in The Great Serum Race.
What is four?
Today, is there a vaccine in the United States and abroad for diphtheria?
What is "Yes"?
What biome does Nome, Alaska belong?
a. Desert
b. Rainforest
c. Tundra
What is c - Tundra?
Capitol of Alaska where the serum is originally located
What is Anchorage?
A struggle: a difficult or sad situation such as "The plight the farmers who lost their crops to drought"
What is plight?
______ month after the epidemic first began, the quarantine was lifted.
What is ONE?
Was the serum a type of antibiotic? Yes or No
What is "Yes"?
Gunnar ran his ___________ fingers under the snow to find the serum package. This word means that is fingers were exposed to extreme cold.
What is frostbitten?