News release: “Members of the Zabul Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT), Embedded Training Team (ETT), Army Veterinarians, and Afghan Para-Veterinarians took part in a 10-day veterinarian medical outreach programme in the districts of Suri and Argendab. The mission provided care for subsistence animals in areas not usually reached by veterinarian care…Over the past five years, the animal population in Zabul has decreased by roughly 70%. In 2003, the province had a total of 800,000 subsistence animals. By 2008, that number had decreased to 54,000.”