Summary: | Epidemic At Point Barrow: Whooping Cough Vaccine Being Rushed By Plane. EPIDEMIC AT POINT BARROW Whooping Cough Vaccine Being Bushed by Plane. POINT BARROW, Alaska, Feb. 4. (/P)—Two deaths have occurred in the native village here as the result of a whooping cough epidemic which has struck all settlements along the arctic coast in this region. Vaccine is being flown here by Pilot Frank Dorbandt, who took off Tuesday from Anchorage. Reports received here were that virtually all the children in settlements along the Coast were affected by the epidemic.
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