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- Irish health officials reported a drug-resistant MRSA outbreak linked to bouncy-castle play that sickened 48 children and teenagers.
- The outbreak began at an outdoor gathering in eastern Ireland in fall 2025 with three inflatables.
- Forty-eight participants got skin infections, with 15 visiting emergency departments and four admitted for four days.
- Researchers said close contact, wet conditions and skin scrapes on the castles likely spread the rare PVL-toxin MRSA strain.
