CLEVELAND, Ohio (WKYC) – It had the makings of a twisted fairy tale, complete with an icebound village, and kids about to die from diphtheria. “At the exact same time as this outbreak was occurring, ...

New York's Central Park has a statue dedicated to him, and there's even been a movie about him: a sled dog named Balto. Now he is the focus of a DNA study, 90 years after he died, to see what made the ...

While watching the news this past week about the arrival of the COVID-19 vaccine, the former Borough Historian of Manhattan, Michael Miscione was reminded of something: that dog statue in Central Park ...

In January 1925, doctors in Nome, Alaska saw the stirrings of a diphtheria outbreak, a deadly infectious disease. The closest city with the antidote (a simple antibiotic) was Anchorage, 500 miles away ...

David Steven Cohen, the mastermind behind the beloved television cartoon Courage The Cowardly Dog, has died at the age of 58. His friend Jerry Beck, a historian of animation, broke the news on ...

A new study of the taxidermied remains of a celebrity Siberian Husky has revealed the special DNA that helped the sled dog gain international fame. In 1925, Balto led a team of sled dogs in a blizzard ...

CLEVELAND — It had the makings of a twisted fairy tale, complete with an icebound village, and kids about to die from diphtheria. “At the exact same time as this outbreak was occurring, there was also ...