Animal suffering ends when veterinary care begins
We are Worldwide Veterinary Service. We make sure a vet is there when animals need one — and Mission Rabies is how we stop the deadliest disease they face.
Our storyIt started in a shed in Dorset
In 2003 a young vet, Luke Gamble, began shipping veterinary supplies from a shed in Dorset to colleagues working where none existed. That shed became WVS.
In 2013 he turned the same logic on rabies. The disease was killing a person every nine minutes and the world's answer was to cull dogs. Luke believed the dogs were the answer. Mission Rabies was born.
“Rabies is real and it's still one of the deadliest zoonotic diseases on the planet.
Luke Gamble
CEO, WVS and Mission Rabies
Luke Gamble, founder, on a Mission Rabies vaccination drive.
The world was treating people. It took a vet to look at the dogs
For decades the response to rabies was human treatment after a bite and the culling of healthy dogs. Billions spent, and the deaths kept coming. Vaccinate the dogs instead and the virus has nowhere left to go. That is why rabies sits at the centre of our story, not beside it.
Why we existVision
A world where no animal suffers
Belief
Animal suffering ends when veterinary care begins
Mission
We make sure a vet is there when animals need one
Promise
Every animal. Everywhere.
Three pillars, one logic
Building a world where vets are always there
We train, equip and support local veterinary professionals. Teach one vet and thousands of animals are reached.
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Vets trained in 2025
Ending rabies in our generation
Mass dog vaccination, education and surveillance. Protecting animals, protecting people, ending a disease that should not exist.
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Dogs vaccinated in 2025
There for every animal, in every crisis
When animals are suffering now, we deploy. Urgent care and expertise until local systems can take over.
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Animals treated in 2025The scienceThis isn't hope. It's a proven threshold
Vaccinate 70% of the dogs in a community and herd immunity breaks transmission. Measurable, repeatable, and already proven in Goa.
Step up and stamp out rabies
for good
The Big Shot is this year's push: 200,000 dogs vaccinated in Cambodia in fourteen days. One vaccination. One dog. Two lives saved.