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Tue 02 Feb 2007MRSA endemic in Irish hospitals, inquest toldMRSA is "endemic" in every hospital in Ireland, a consultant microbiologist at the Mater hospital in Dublin has told an inquest.Dr Maureen Lynch told Dublin City Coroner's Court yesterday that the strain of MRSA infection that killed a Dublin man was associated in 90 per cent of cases with being a hospital-acquired infection.