World Vets Responds to Disaster in the Philippines
Members of World Vets Disaster Response team, Dr. Springer Browne and Dr. Helle Hydeskov, walk through Guiuan providing veterinary care and performing an assessment of veterinary needs.
World Vets is responding to Typhoon Haiyan with veterinary supplies, financial support and on the ground teams. Initial support has already been sent to our partners working to help animals in the destruction area and our disaster response teams are on the ground in the disaster area with much needed supplies and relief efforts.
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Thanks to the Fondation Brigitte Bardot for their support of our disaster preparedness and relief efforts.
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World Vets Mission is to improve the health and well being of animals by providing veterinary aid and training in developing countries and by providing disaster relief worldwide.
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- Tacloban City
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- World Vets disaster team, Dr. Springer Browne (left) and Dr. Helle Hydeskov (right) say hello to a piglet that survived the storm in Tacloban City.
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- World Vets Disaster Response team, Dr. Springer Browne and Dr. Helle Hydeskov, walk through Guiuan providing veterinary care and performing an assessment of veterinary needs.
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- World Vets disaster response member, Dr. Helle Hydeskov, sits with a family in Guiyan, East Samar, after treating a skin infection in their dog
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- A cat in Tacloban city wanders through the rubble
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- World Vets Disaster Response Team en route to Tacloban and Eastern Samar with over 100 kg of veterinary supplies to benefit animals affected
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- World Vets Disaster Responders, Dr. Springer Browne and Dr. Helle Hydeskov, walk through Guiuan providing veterinary care and performing an initial assessment of veterinary needs.
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- World Vets Disaster Team member, Dr. Springer Browne, says hello and examines a dog in Tacloban City.
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- A dog wanders between houses in Tacloban City
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- Farm in Daanbantayan (Northern Cebu) damaged by the Typhoon.
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- Dr. Helle Hydeskov cleans a wound on a cows leg which was caused by flying metal during the Typhoon.
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- Dr. Springer Browne examines a pig
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- Dr. Springer Browne examines a young cow
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- Rural farm in Daanbantayan, Northern Cebu with goat shed damaged in the Typhoon.
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- A woman stands with her puppy and donated dog food.
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- World Vets veterinarians stand with LaLei, a recently graduated Filipino veterinarian who helped them with field clinics for the day.
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- Dr. Springer Browne prepares medications for a cow at a field clinic.
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- Owners wait to have their livestock and dogs treated at the first of three clinic field sites in Dapdap, Daanbantayan
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- Government Farm in Daanbantayan, in Barangay Tambungon, that was heavily damaged by the typhoon.
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- The team stands in front of a jeepney, a local taxi commonly used in the Philippines, the third of three field clinics sites in Dapdap, Daanbantayan
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