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...
Former Prime Minister and CORD leader Raila Odinga joined President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto at the official groundbreaking ceremony of the new terminal at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. The new terminal, under project Greenfield, is expected to make JKIA one of the most convenient airports in the world. “The construction of this new greenfield terminal, with a capacity to handle more than 20 million passengers, and, eventually, a 2nd runway that is planned for this Airport, will enable Kenya attain her National Vision 2030 aspirations to be a middle income country,” said President Kenyatta8Our intention is to make Jomo Kenyatta International Airport the most convenient, comfortable and secure airports in Africa,” added the president. Also at the ceremony was Nairobi Governor Dr Evans Kidero and Baringo Senator Gedion Moi.
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