Overview
- Both patients—a 51-year-old man and his 15-year-old daughter—remain in intensive care at Hospital Regional Scaravelli in Tunuyán with a reserved but stable condition.
- They were intubated and placed on mechanical ventilation after developing neurological and respiratory symptoms hours after eating the homemade conserve.
- Laboratory testing confirmed Clostridium botulinum type A, and clinicians administered botulinum antitoxin with reported clinical response.
- The father suffered a cardiac decompensation that required resuscitation and was stabilized, and the daughter is progressing faster according to hospital officials.
- Therapy teams have begun muscular rehabilitation, and SENASA urged consumers to choose approved commercial preserves and discard jars showing bulging lids, gas release or turbidity; no broader outbreak has been reported.