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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...

NARASHA EVICTIONS SHOULD BE CONDEMNED Jubilee Governments unleashed Terror to the Maasai community living in their ancestral land of Narasha ..Its a known historical fact that agikuyu people are settlers in the Rift ..But since most of leaders who have ruled this country come from their tribe ..they have developed imperial like traits to occupy other communities ancestral lands especially pastoralists maasai community ,on basis of willing buyer willing seller.Unfortunately, due to lack of good land registration regulations and corruption, many of community lands have been converted to private lands and sold, leaving ancestral owners landless. I dont support nor sympathise with land clashes in the Rift ,Coast and other areas..But natural justice must prevail.God gave every community its own geographical area and for a single community to look for conflicts by acquiring land of other communities via dubious means should highly be resisted.Let the Central Kenya elites share the large tracts of land they own with their people.

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