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...
Nigeria Troops on red alert following information that Boko Haram insurgents had surrounded Gwoza, Borno State.
•Terrorists blow up second bridge, kill many in village attack, abduct two kids Troops have been placed on red alert following information that Boko Haram insurgents had surrounded Gwoza, Borno State. A military source said the insurgents had been “massing up in Gwoza with intent to strike.” “We have placed troops on red alert. We are also sending reinforcement as I speak with you. We are taking pre-emptive measures to avert a repeat of what happened in Gamboru during the week.” The news broke as the terrorists blew up another bridge, killed an unknown number of people and abducted the wife and two children of a retired police officer at Limankara village in Adamawa State. The Limankara bridge served as a link between Adamawa and Borno states. A team of French experts arrived Abuja yesterday to join those from the USA and UK to help look for the girls. An official in President Francois Hollande’s office in Paris said they are experts in collecting intelligence from technical and human sources and in image analysis. Father of two of the abducted girls, the Rev. Enoch Mark, described his despair and anger at the military for not yet finding his daughters. “For a good 11 days, our daughters were sitting in one place,” he told The Associated Press. “They camped them near Chibok not more than 30 kilometres, and no help in hand. For a good 11 days.”
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