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 opposition coalition,CORD is calling for removal of current iebc commissioners on claims that, they rigged in the ruling jubilee coalition headed by uhuru kenyatta.whether the commisioners will be removed from office or not, only time will tell.What matters more is how can kenya have a free and fair elections in future to avoid re-occurence of post election violence like one which was exprienced in 2007.The history of kenya's general elections shows that it will matters less on who will be heading the electral body but but how much will be invested to achieve a secure,tamper proof votes results transmission system,which is supposed to transmit results directly from polling stations to national tallying centre in case of presidential vote.Unless this is achieved rigging will forever remain as results will only be doctored at different level before they find there way to the national tallying centre, as it has happened before.Thats why disbandment of Iebc will only improve public confidence but won't avoid rigging.
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