Taylor C, et al. - In the present study, the researchers sought to measure the rates of hospital-acquired viral respiratory tract infections (VRTIs) in the neonatal population vs other inpatient age groups in Nottinghamshire, UK. Between 2007 and 2013, they compared all hospital inpatient PCR-positive viral respiratory samples and calculated age-stratified rates based on population estimates. Out of a population of 4,707,217, they identified a previously unrecognized burden of VRTI in neonatal patients, only second to the 0–1-year-old group. Human rhinovirus has been the most dominant virus across the inpatient group, especially in neonatal patients. For neonatal patients and infants < 1 year old, pandemic H1N1 influenza rates were 20 times higher. Good epidemiological and interventional data are required to help inform visiting and infection control policies to decrease transmission of hospital-acquired viral infections to this vulnerable population, especially during pandemic seasons.