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...
: Let's seal the black hole first! It's an irony of the year to see people wearing hats written Kenya@50 then running in the streets of western nations to raise money to build clinics and feed the hungry in their native countries. Underline Kenya@50. Is it trying to force a fox to wear a sheep's skin by seeking to cover past economic and humanitarian atrocities committed by them and their fathers through some marathon PR? And what happened to that speech in Ethiopia about western nations? Instead of spending 100 to get 50 in the London marathon, the simplest thing Mrs. Kenyatta should have done to save the tax payers this burden was to ask her husband and family to return any stolen monies and wealth that should have been meant for such projects since 1963, then reign on him to seal the black hole once and for all. Results would be tangible within a year. ByAB Murage Eghmp
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