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The vets brought 10, 000 doses of the vaccine for foot and mouth disease, one of the most destructive and contagious viruses for livestock on the planet. Ian Decker is one of them. -[ unk ] and just inject ,-- >> Inject. >> like that. But if you just come in and go like that, no control, not safe. >> Ian is a disaster vet; he travels throughout Asia to help animals affected by natural disasters like cyclones, floods, and earthquakes. -[ unk ] control and safe, need to go harder in but that's easier like that. >> In November, Cyclone Jerry killed 157 people and thousands of animals in this part of Burma. >> The animals that died here died through either drowning because there was a relatively smaller wave surge coming through which drowned a lot of them, but also the main impact was the high- velocity of the actual cyclone itself; the wind picking up material, branches and what- have- you, injuring animals and killing them. >> It could have been worst. In May 2008, Cyclone Nargis struck Southern Burma and killed 130, 000 people and millions of animals. The military regime that rules Burma was lambasted for not telling people that Nargis was on its way and for making things worse with the slow and disorganized response to the disaster. Since then the National Warning System has improved, most people here knew Jerry was coming two or three days before the storm hit, many people even had time to bring their animals to higher ground. This farmer said people took refuge in the village monastery or climbed up to the hill in Bakafus when the rice paddy is flooded, but the threat of disease will remain long enough until the flood waters are gone. When farmers whose animals were killed, buy new livestock, there's a serious risk of bringing foot and mouth or FMD to the area. >> And this was where the animals died, right? They got killed. [ unk ]. So, what usually worry about is that animals who will come in to this area to replace the ones which were killed in the cyclone, so we want to protect this area against [ unk ]. >> But getting the vaccine here wasn't easy. It has to be kept cooled until it's injected to the animal. In Rangoon, ice- packed crates of medicine are loaded onto a plane, from there it's a 2- day journey by bus, boat and motorbike to the village. Ian says it's worth it. >> You help the animal; you help the person as well, because the animal is responsible for putting food on the plate whether it's plowing paddy fields for rice production or raising ducks to sell the eggs so that you can have an income. So, it's all related to people anyway, and particularly in countries like here in Myanmar where they are so heavily dependent on their livestock. >> The increasing frequency of these deadly events is a symptom of climate change. It's already affecting the poorest and most isolated parts of the world like these where people are the least equipped to recover from them. This cattle owner says the Cyclone Gerry was the strongest storm he has ever seen, for the first time the one ripped the roofs off houses but he says before today nobody has come to help the animals or to give free medicine. He is relieved not to be charged. Medicine of any kind is hard to come by here. Burma spends a smaller percentage of government money on healthcare than most nations in the world. When Ian asks this crowd how many of them had ever had a vaccine themselves, only one person raise their hand. >> A question that's frequently asked is, you know, why are we coming here to help animals when obviously the people need help as well? There's a direct link between animals and people, out there you have to remember that somebody that own a buffalo will spend many hours a day with their buffalo and they will get to know it. 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