Help on the Way for Stranded Doctor
The long polar winter may be nearing an end for Jerrie Nielsen, an ailing U.S. physician stranded at an Antarctic research station. Nielsen, 47, who has a lump in her breast, reportedly has been treating herself with chemotherapy since an airdrop of medical supplies in July. The crews of two Air National Guard Hercules LC-130 cargo planes reached McMurdo base on Antarctica’s coast to wait for temperatures to rise above minus 58 degrees at the National Science Foundation’s Amundsen-Scott South Pole research station so that they may safely make the trip.
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