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Interesting things to know about the towel

How often do you wash your towel? Some people wash once a week, while some, once a year. The towel is a fertile breeding ground for millions of microbes, especially those found on human skin and on the gut.  No wonder the towel is one of the objects that facilitate fecal-oral contamination (literally connecting the two ends of the gut).  Worse still, most people keep towels in the bathroom (near the toilet). Every flush of the toilet sends mist with millions of microbes, ranging from H.pylori,  salmonella and other deadly bacteria and viruses. When you wash your hands ready for a meal, and dry them with your body towel, there's high chance you are directly ingesting your fecal matter, or, if in a shared lavatory, someone else's faeces. Unless cleaned well, viruses such as human papillomavirus (causes warts, anal cancer and cervical cancer) can be transmitted when towels are shared with infected individuals. So, what to do? 1. Launder towels once a week. 2. Use hot water and det...
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JOSHUA KUTTUNY tells RAILA ODINGAto stop bothering UHURU/RUTO about his retirement package President Uhuru Kenyatta’s political advisor and former Cher angany Member of Parliament, Joshua Kuttuny, yesterday lashed out at form erPrimeMinister and Coalition f orReforms and Democracy (C ORD) lead er, Raila Odinga, ov erhis retirement packages saying he doesn’t des erve it. Speaking during anint erview on NTV yest erday, Kuttuny told Raila not to complain to Uhuru/Ruto abouthis retirement predicaments because he is the one who advised f orm erPresident Mwai Kibaki not to approve his package. He said Kibaki was ready and willing to approve his retirement packages togeth erwith that of Raila, KalonzoMusyoka and f orm erHouse Speak er, Kenneth Marende bef ore Raila rudely int errupted and stopped him. Howev er, Kibaki approved only that benefiting him leaving Raila, Kalonzo and Mar ande to s ort themselves out. Kuttuny furth erstated that Uhuru/Ruto’s Gov ernment will not feel pity f orRaila because it is his own making. Raila had upon his arrival from USon Wednesdaydem anded the State to treat himwith respect and acc ord him his retirement benefits having shared pow eron a 50/50 basis with ex-President Mwai Kibaki. Yest erday, CIC Chairm anCharles Nyachae urged SRC to set retirement packages f orRaila, Kalonzo and Marende to save the trio from furth erhumiliation fromUhuru/Ruto’s Gov ernment, which has gone ahead to withdraw some security details from them as well as dem and the return of 10 GKvehicles in their possession.

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