Unprecedented Outbreak: How a Popular Children’s Attraction Sparked Ireland’s Largest Community-Associated MRSA Event
DUBLIN, IRELAND — Public health authorities have closed the book on a baffling and unprecedented epidemiological investigation that has left pediatricians, microbiologists, and infectious disease experts rethinking the potential transmission vectors of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. In what has officially been classified as the largest community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) outbreak ever recorded in Ireland, health officials…
