Overview
- An urgent autopsy was ordered in the Plottier collapse death as officials examine a suspected link to contaminated cocaine.
- Neuquén reports two sudden deaths and one patient in intensive care in recent days, triggering coordinated health and judicial investigations.
- The Early Warning System was activated with toxicology analyses ongoing, and narcocriminal prosecutor Lucrecia Sola opened tracing to map possible distribution.
- Clinicians described atypical signs including extreme psychomotor agitation, marked somnolence, fulminant liver failure and related coagulation or neurological abnormalities.
- La Pampa issued a provincewide preventive alert with no local cases confirmed and urged residents to avoid illicit drugs and seek immediate care for severe symptoms such as loss of consciousness, breathing difficulty, convulsions or cardiac changes.