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...
By AB Murage Eghmp The National Assembly this afternoon passed the Kenya Information and Communication (Amendment) Bill of 2013 which incorporated the contentious, draconian and dictatorial proposals put forward by Kenya's number suspect of crimes against humanity Uhuru Kenyatta. DARK DAYS AHEAD YET YOU WANT TO WALK FROM KATWEKERA SLUMS, BAREFOOTED, COLD, HUNGRY, IN THE RAIN OR SUN TO SING, DANCE AND LISTEN TO THE LORD OF IMPUNITY AS HE CELEBRATES TAKING KENYA BACK 50 YEARS! WHAT A SHAME!
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