cut off by the frozen sea and under siege from a contagious disease known as the “strangling angel” for the way it suffocated children ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome ...

it was once a leading cause of death for children. The antitoxin used to treat it was developed in 1890, and a vaccine in 1923; it is now exceedingly rare in the U.S. Nome, western Alaska's ...