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...
Africa has 55 billionaires, far more than previously thought, Nigeria-basedVentures financial magazine says.They include three women - the mother of Kenya's president, a daughter ofAngola's president and a Nigerian oil tycoon and fashion designer.The richest man is Nigeria's Aliko Dangote, with a fortune of $20.2bn(£12.5bn), Ventures said.The list is likely to reignite debate about inequality between rich and poorpeople in Africa, correspondents say.In April, the World Bank said the number of people living in extreme poverty inAfrica had risen in the past three decades from 205 million to 414 million.'Conservative estimate'A report earlier this month by research group Afrobarometer suggested thateconomic growth in Africa was primarily benefiting a small elite.. This is the first time the respected Ventures magazine has published a list ofrich Africans, reports the BBC's Tomi Oladipo reports from Nigeria's main cityLagos.
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