Overview
- A 51-year-old man and his 15-year-old daughter remain in intensive care at Hospital Scaravelli in Tunuyán with confirmed botulism, according to hospital officials.
- Both patients were intubated and placed on mechanical ventilation, with a reserved prognosis but reported hemodynamic stability.
- The hospital director said antitoxin therapy was administered and the pair are responding, after lab tests identified botulism type A.
- The cases followed the consumption of a homemade bottled tomato preserve prepared days earlier, with symptoms such as weakness, double vision, and difficulty speaking and swallowing appearing within hours.
- Senasa urges consumers to choose authorized commercial preserves and specialists advise discarding jars with bulging lids, gas release on opening, unusual turbidity or foam, or abnormal odor or consistency.