ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Suspected swine flu is sweeping a traditional Eskimo whaling village on a remote Alaska island — prompting an urgent medical mission to deliver help.
So many of the 130 residents of Diomede have been stricken with flu-like symptoms that the Alaska Army National Guard stepped in with a helicopter to transport a medical team there.
The medics arrived this week to administer doses of swine flu vaccine and deliver enough medicine to treat every resident if necessary.
Diomede is on the west coast of Little Diomede Island, located just 2 1/2 miles from Russia's Big Diomede Island in the Bering Strait.
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