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A Connecticut dog that had an untimely death tested positive for the coronavirus, officials said. (Chris Dehnel/Patch)
STORRS, CT — A 3-month-old puppy from Connecticut that died unexpectedly tested positive for the coronavirus, according to researchers from the University of Connecticut.
The announcement was made Tuesday and the puppy was the first domestic animal in the state to test positive for the coronavirus, researchers said.
The puppy was brought to the university's Connecticut Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory for a postmortem examination. For the past year, the organization has teamed with other labs around the United States to perform surveillance testing of all the dogs and cats brought into the lab, regardless of suspected cause of death — and so far, the lab has tested about 200 samples, UConn officials said.