The Ischilín department reported 14 new cases of trichinellosis in 2025.

Trichinella infections are frequently reported in Argentina. Homemade sausage foods do not usually go through regulatory sanitary controls and may be sold privately on the roads of the country.

Trichinellosis is caused by the larvae of an intestinal worm when eating insufficiently cooked meat (mainly pork, but also game and other animals such as bear). Symptoms vary widely: muscle pain, inflammation of the eyelids and eye pain, diarrhea, and fever. Cardiac and neurological complications are possible, and the disease is sometimes fatal.