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Balto is part of the Iditarod because when the town of Nome was sick with Diphtheria. The people from Nome got the deadly dieses by the Gold Rush. The Gold Rush is when outsiders came to Alaska they brought the disease with them. The Iditarod sled-dog race in run on a trail that was originally a mail-supply route. Also it was the trail that Balto took to save the town of Nome.

The disease got to Nome by outsiders who came into Nome and gave everybody disease. Balto was part of a relay team of mushers who brought medicine to Nome to save the sick children. That is how Balto became famous.

Balto is amazing. Balto, a Husky who saved a whole village from a disease called: Diphtheria. He led his team to Nome of the serum run in 1925 in which Diphtheria Anti-toxin was transported from Anchorage,Alaska to Nenana,Alaska by train and then to nome by the dog sled team.

yea this is why I dont write much beacause I really suck at it.

Balto was a Siberian Husky, who saved an entire village from Diphtheria. Diphtheria is a disease that killed many people. The village was Nome. The village was dying because of Diphtheria. The only place closest to them with the medicine was about 15, 000 km away. Balto and more dogs went with their musher to Nome. Balto was the lead dog. He ran with the dogs the entire way there with the musher and sled behind them. That is about 300 pounds to for the dogs to carry. They got the medicine to the doctor after about 3 weeks of running. They saved the village.

1.by fluffyman2.0 balto is a half wolf/dog he helped a dog sled team get medichine for little kids.

2.by fluffyman2.0 the iditarod was made in 1936 3.by fluffyman2.0