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If you have a few drinks, does the alcohol in your bloodstream act as medication...

26 August 2015

If you have a few drinks, does the alcohol in your bloodstream act as medication against any microbes in the body?

Adam Wilson, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, UK

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