Overview

• An official Cuerpo Médico Forense report delivered to the La Plata federal court found no direct causal link in the first 20 fatalities analyzed but concluded the contamination contributed to clinical decline in 12 cases, classified as a concausal nexus.
• The same review grouped four deaths as having a fortuitous causal nexus and left four without a determination due to timing or incomplete records, after cross‑checking Malbrán lab results with clinical files.
• Instituto Malbrán confirmed Ralstonia mannitolilytica and metallo‑β‑lactamase–producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in the implicated fentanyl lots, tying patient isolates to seized ampoules.
• Córdoba and Río Negro newly reported suspected patients under investigation, while the Health Ministry’s tally lists 50 reported deaths and the judicial case file references 87 confirmed and 9 suspected.
• The Health Ministry formalized the removal of ANMAT official Mariela Andrea García, as prior ANMAT inspection records citing critical GMP deficiencies at Laboratorios Ramallo continue to underpin the criminal probe.