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...
Bomet Governor, Isaac Ruto, has formed a new party that he intends to use to contest for the Presidency in 2017 Presidential election.According to Kuresoi South MP, Zakayo Cheruiyot, Ruto together with Kwale Governor Salim Mvurya have already agreed on the name of their political vehicle.The name of the party isChama Cha Ugatuzior Devolution Party of Kenya.The two Governors have tasked certain individuals to process its registration.Other governors who have contributed to the formation of the party include, Meru Governor, Peter Munya, and Bungoma Governor, Ken Lusaka.Zakayo Cheruiyot is in charge of the registration of the party and he has warned Deputy President, William Ruto, against interfering with the affairs of the Kipsigis community.According to Cheruiyot, the Governors have billions of shillings in devolution funds available and will each use the resources to market the party.The lawmaker, who is a close ally of Governor Ruto, said the party is aimed at clinching the Presidency in 2017, by sending President Uhuru and his deputy to opposition, who he said are against devolution.This new development will be viewed by many as strategy by governors aimed at guarding their constitutional powers which they fear to be deprived by uhuruto govt which boasts of tranny of numbers in parliament.Lately governors have cried foul of what they term as funding of Mcas' by uhuruto to oust them via impeachments.As this continues mwananchi has to wait abit longer for devolution to become a reality.
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