Afghan canine rescue team dismayed by CDC rabies ban
Farthing was bringing two dogs rescued by US troops in Afghanistan to their new properties in the United States. From Houston, he was scheduled to push to Memphis, Tennessee, to fall off a single pet, whilst the second was headed to Colorado Springs, Colorado.
It may well be his final journey.
“There is nothing at all we can do,” Farthing told CNN. Farthing, a previous British Royal Marine, founded animal rescue charity Nowzad in 2006.
“To day we have assisted 1,600 troopers to be reunited with their dog or cat,” he reported.
On Monday, the CDC mentioned it was suspending the import of dogs from a lot more than 100 international locations, which includes Afghanistan, wherever rabies is a problem. The company mentioned it experienced been given falsified rabies certificates, noticed the import of 3 rabies-infected canines due to the fact 2015 and was stretched outside of skinny by the