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...
The sacking of former NYS Director Kiplimo Rugut from the helm of the National Youth Service has attracted the ire of Kalenjin leaders who now demand the man be given his job back. Several charged rallies are planned for North Rift region – Deputy President William Ruto’s strongest hold – in what has already rattled both Ruto and President Uhuru Kenyatta. Callers in the powerful Kass FM spent the better part of yesterday warning DP Ruto over his perceived ‘coolness’ even as members of his community are axed from top government positions and systematically replaced by Kikuyus, their erstwhile partner in the jubilee alliance. Yesterday, Rift Valley MPs led by outspoken Nandi Hills MP Alfred Keter and his colleagues William Cheptumo (Baringo North), Julius Melly (Tinderet) and Elisha Busienei (Turbo), Samuel Moroto (Kapenguria) insisted that the removal of Rugut was prompted by the urge by a section of leaders to engage in corrupt dealings. It has now been confirmed that Rugut was fired via text message from the cabinet CS Anne Waiguru source:kenya today news and analysis
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