{"id":2362,"date":"2009-06-23T21:05:54","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T14:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=2362"},"modified":"2009-06-23T21:05:54","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T14:05:54","slug":"ready-for-disaster-avma-veterinary-medical-assistance-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/ready-for-disaster-avma-veterinary-medical-assistance-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"READY FOR DISASTER: AVMA Veterinary Medical Assistance Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AVMA Veterinary Medical Assistance Teams, after retooling, are ready again to deploy to the scene of a natural disaster or another emergency\u2014and members are eager to return to service.<\/p>\n<p>The VMAT program officially relaunched May 1 after the Tri-State Veterinary Disaster Response Conference, April 28-29 in La Crosse, Wis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am thrilled to see the teams ready to deploy again, able to assist in the veterinary medical care of animals affected by disaster and emergencies,&#8221; said Dr. Heather Case, formerly a VMAT member and currently the AVMA coordinator for emergency preparedness and response.<\/p>\n<p>The AVMA established the VMAT program in 1993 as a public-private partnership with the federal government. In the past several years, changes in federal law prompted officials to develop the National Veterinary Response Team as a program that operates entirely under government oversight. Now the AVMA has retooled the VMATs to respond to requests for assistance from state governments\u2014and to offer training in disaster response.<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avma.org\/onlnews\/javma\/jun09\/090615a.asp\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AVMA Veterinary Medical Assistance Teams, after retooling, are ready again to deploy to the scene of a natural disaster or another emergency\u2014and members are eager to return to service. The VMAT program officially relaunched May 1 after the Tri-State Veterinary Disaster Response Conference, April 28-29 in La Crosse, Wis. &#8220;I am thrilled to see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,31,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry","category-veterinary-medicine","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2363,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions\/2363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}