The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome was hundreds of miles from anywhere and under siege from a contagious disease known as the ...

One hundred years ago an outbreak of the deadly disease in the Alaskan outpost of Nome caught the world’s attention.

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Feb. 2, 1925, the legendary Alaska Serum ...

The Mayflower Hotel opens its doors on February 18. The hotel, located at 1127 Connecticut Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., ...

Health officials have confirmed the first pertussis, also called whooping cough, death in Washington since 2011.

SRHD says a child under the age of 5 died in November 2024 and the CDC confirmed that pertussis was the cause of death.

A 10-year-old boy in Berlin has died from diphtheria, a highly infectious disease, because he was not vaccinated. The case, ...

Washington saw a high number of whooping cough cases in 2024, with more than 2,000 reported, according to the state Department of Health.

The historic trek to neutralize the diphtheria epidemic in Nome Diphtheria is an airborne disease that causes a thick, suffocating film to develop at the back of the throat; it was once a leading ...

Nome, Alaska, remembers its saviors — the sled dogs and mushers who raced for more than five days through hypothermia, ...