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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...

OPEN LETTER TOTRANSPORT AND SAFETY AUTHORITY

To the Transport and Safety Authority. If it is not innuendo. If it is not witch hunting. If the plight of the safety of the Kenyan commuter is what your heart values, you should know by now that Kenyans have died on the road carnage through human error and greed and enough has been enough.The withdrawal of the 100 buses from our public roads belonging to Ummoinner Sacco should not be compromised.Their presentation of 48 buses for inspection, instead of their full fleet of 100 buses is an insult to the Kenyan public and is treacherous.Their full fleet must undergo inspection to certify their road worthiness and all their drivers tested and verified too. Their touts must provide all their documentation without favor before banning the full fleet for a number of years as per the traffic laid down regulations and the directors taken to court and fined heavily.Police should not take bribes to release these vehicles through back door as a lesson to all other saccos and companies that disregard traffic laws.In the same spirit, Nyamira Express should follow suit by availing all their fleet for inspection, all their drivers and conductors for verification and the directors of the company taken to court and fined heavily before banning the buses from our public roads for a number of years.For how long are KENYANS going to die on our roads as the traffic police master in taking bribes as they enrich themselves?

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