STEPHENVILLE, Texas — Tarleton State University donated 110 COVID-19 sampling kits on Wednesday, April 8 to the Stephenville Medical and Surgical Clinic, the only Erath County facility conducting drive-through, appointment-only testing for individuals with coronavirus symptoms.

The sampling kits were rushed to Tarleton by the Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory in College Station and assembled from lab supplies usually reserved for pigs, cows and chickens at A&M’s four diagnostic labs across the state.

Tarleton President James L. Hurley. “We’re extremely pleased to share resources available through The Texas A&M University System to help address this worldwide emergency on a local level.”