CIBERINFEC
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Senior scientific researcher and co-principal investigator of Clinical Virology and Zoonoses at the Maimónides Institute for Biomedical Research in Córdoba (IMIBIC), member of CIBERINFEC, Infectious Diseases Area, researcher at the Reina Sofía University Hospital – Infectious Diseases UGC and president of GEHEP (Viral Hepatitis Study Group, SEIMC)
ICREA research rrofessor at theIrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute AIDS, principal investigator at CIBERINFEC and associate professor at the University of Vic
According to the newspaper El País, the Catalan Regional Government has reported a case of swine flu —not swine fever, which is caused by another virus and does not affect humans— in an 83-year-old person in the province of Lleida. The newspaper points out that, as the patient had no contact with pigs that could transmit the virus, they may have been infected by another person.
The combination of the antiretrovirals bictegravir and lenacapavir in a single tablet allows HIV treatment —previously based on multiple daily medications— to be simplified, according to the results of a new phase 3 clinical trial published in The Lancet. The trial, which included over 550 people living with HIV from 15 countries with a median age of 60, showed that the new treatment was just as effective at maintaining viral suppression as multi-drug regimens. Most participants were taking between two and eleven tablets daily, and around 40 % were on antiretrovirals more than once a day. The results were presented at the 2026 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Denver, USA.