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...
Jubilee supporters got the shock of their life on Wednesday after US President, Barrack Obama, said he will not meet one on one with African leaders during the US - African summit scheduled this August. Making the announcement on Wednesday, the Head of US-Africa business group, Tim Hayes, said President Obama will only meet them in a hall during the summit. This means President Kenyatta will be unable to confer with Mr Obama on several sensitive Kenya-US issues if he does travel to Washington for the August 5-6 event. The decision not to arrange individual meetings with Mr Obama “has infuriated some African leaders who have questioned the utility of the trip.” “No doubt Obama will shake the hand of each President, but there will be little substantive dialogue,” Hays said. Over 50 African leaders have been invited to the summit which will be opened by US strongman, Barrack Obama. President Uhuru Kenyatta has so far indicated that he may not attend the summit to avoid being humiliated by Obama.
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