IL6 and asthma: Although Haemophilus influenzae has been implicated as being an important potential pathogenic bacterial species in asthma and other airways diseases,4, 6, 7 we have delineated precisely for the first time, a restricted phenotype of high relative abundance of Haemophilus influenzae in severe asthma associated with high neutrophil inflammation, an adaptive response of NETosis and IL‐6 transsignalling activation.