There was a university paper about a year ago that actually proposed that alcohol may, in fact, promote HIV infection. It was very prliminary and needed followup studies to verify the theory. But the basic premise was that cells from a healthy mouth were subjected to alcohol (in a lab) then to HIV. The infection rate was higher than in the control group. Again, all done in a lab dish, not a real mouth.
I'm not promoting this theory, only reporting it. If I wasn't so lazy, I'd try to google it for you.
|