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[โ€“] teohhanhui@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

From a summary:

Drinking damages the liver and may make the body more vulnerable to infectious diseases, including sexually transmitted infections and tuberculosis.

Or from the review itself:

Infectious disease

The causal impact of alcohol on the four broad categories of infectious disease from the last Global Status Report on Alcohol and Health [1] has been confirmed in recent reviews [15, 16]. The main biological mechanism involves alcohol-induced liver dysfunction, which disrupts both non-specific innate and adaptive immune responses through acute and chronic alcohol consumption [80-84]. Lowered immune responses increase susceptibility to communicable diseases. More specific biological pathways are described in the references listed in Table 1.

[โ€“] liuther9@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Didn't know liver and immune system are that connected