Acidic conditions happen to be the conditions that viri and bacteria cannot or do not thrive. This was discovered with the C Difficile bug infecting hospital patients who were also taking an ulcer medication that lowered the acidity...
This is written up, from a hospital in Montreal Canada. The hospitals admin. is not tied to the medical associations and can do as it sees fit, thats how and why they were allowed to say this, as it contradicts mainstream medicine [ of which you are a parrot].