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...
Malaysian Airlines plane MH17, carrying 295 people, crashed over Ukraine. The Ukrainian interior ministry saysthere are no survivors. This has the potential to become a serious international crisis if the plane was shot down by either the Ukrainian government or Russia-backed separatists that are currently fighting in eastern Ukraine. In such a tense situation, it's often easy for people to lose track of what we actually know and don't know about the crash. So here's a list of what's confirmed and unconfirmed. This will be updated as the day goes on, so keep checking in here for details. What we know MH17 crashed in Ukraine with 295 on board, and Ukrainian sources say there appearto be no survivors. MH17 was traveling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. The plane crashed near the Russia/Ukraine border, in eastern Ukraine, per the New York Times. This is not the same Malaysia Airlines flight that disappeared on March 8th. That was MH370; this is MH17. Ukrainian officials are blaming pro-Russia separatists for the crash."A civilian airliner travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur has just been shot down by a Buk anti-aircraft system," Ukrainian Interior official Anton Gerashchenko saidto Interfax-Ukraine news. Rebels are denying responsibility. "We simply do not have such air defense systems," they're quoted as sayingin a tweet from New York Times reporter Ellen Barry sourced to Interfax. Obama and Putin have already discussedthe MH117 crash, per Ria Novosti. What we don't know Whether the plane was shot down or a crash. There's no hard evidence either way. We don't know who was responsible. Whether the rebels have the capability to shoot down a plane flying at 30,000 feet.
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