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Interesting things to know about the towel

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...

A CALL TO CORD SUPPORTERS

All CORD supporters should resist attempts to engage Jubilee supporters in ethnic bigotry. We have a clear agenda of reforms and democracy. The recent attempts by the Jubilee govt to blame politics and point fingers at our leaders is an attempt to polarize the nation further politically and tribally. If any politicians are supposedely involved in planing and orgarnizing such attacks let them be arraigned in court and chsrged but for. Uhuru to give a televised speech with no solutions but finger pointing is pointless and unpresidential.

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