Gunnar Kaasen was a Norwegian-born musher who delivered a cylinder containing 300,000 units of diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, Alaska, in 1925, as the last leg of a dog sled relay that saved the U.S. city from an epidemic.
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About this person
Country
Norway
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1882 to 1960 · aged 78
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