Overview

• The federal court located the last 232 missing ampoules, bringing over 100,000 unused vials from the tainted lots under quarantine.
• Judge Ernesto Kreplak reported 87 confirmed deaths and nine additional cases under investigation as patient records are cross-checked.
• ANLIS–Malbrán and court-ordered pericias are matching Klebsiella pneumoniae and Ralstonia pickettii strains from ampoules to patient infections.
• About 24 individuals face asset freezes and travel bans in connection with production and distribution failures, though no detentions have been made.
• ANMAT has suspended the implicated products and barred the laboratories, while prosecutors and Congress probe regulatory lapses and possible diversion.