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...
Kenya needs a total reform of the security sectors which is resisting change. I don’t believe the solution lies in reporting your neighbour. It requires radically reforming our security sectors, equipping them with the necessary skills.When children are learning under trees, do they need a rooftop or a laptop?Millions of Kenyans are asking; does the government stand on our side or on our way? No government created wealth by taxing everything and everyone.Adding an insult to an injury president UHURU KENYATTA can afford to bring South Sudan to a standstill with his CONVOY ..... LOOK at it President Uhuru Kenyatta landed in Juba yesterday and the following was the composition of his convoy 1 BMW X6 10 outriders on motorbikes 7 Toyota Land cruisers V8 5 4*4 Mercedes 6 saloon V6 American cars 3 Toyota pickups full of soldiers each with a gun and each car mounted with a sub machine gun 1 ambulance. No wonder kenyans will continue to struggle to make ends meet.
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