Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!Some of the 173 animals airlifted out of Kabul by former Marine Pen Farthing were infected with a disease that could spread to humans, it has been claimed.Mr Farthing courted controversy during his attempts to rescue the animals from the Nowzad animal charity as Afghanistan's capital city fell to the Taliban in August.He was accused of interfering with the efforts to evacuate British nationals from Kabul and left an expletive-filled voicemail to a government aide, saying he would "destroy" him if he didn't approve the flight out of the country.
It has now been reported by the Mail on Sunday that some of the dogs on the plane over to the UK were infected with Brucella canis, a contagious.
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