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 Vice President, Kalonzo Musyoka, has urged the Jubilee Government to stop terrorising members of the Muslim and Somali communities in the name of fighting terrorism. In an interview with KTN on Wednesday, Kalonzo, who is also Wiper Democratic Movement party leader, said the Government should come out with other ways of fighting terrorism instead of putting Muslims in a concentration camp in Kasarani Stadium. He termed the move as “inhuman and barbaric” saying the Muslim community will never vote for the Jubilee Government. “How can you vote for the Government that it is killing its people in the name of terror?” Kalonzo posed. Kalonzo said as a CORD Principal, he will not relent in condemning the bad leadership the Jubilee Government is subjecting Kenyans to. He said if President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Deputy, William Ruto, are tired, they should resign and let other leaders like former Prime Minister Raila Odinga become the President of Kenya. “Raila is capable of becoming the Head of State. Am confident than he can eliminate terrorism and acts of insecurity in the country within one week in office,” Kalonzo said.
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