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...
By FRED OBACHI MACHOKAA, I think the good old Hon. Prof. Kisiangani on @CitizenTVNews is slowly but surely becoming a political phycophant, someone please tell him! As a Kenyan I abhor what happened to our President in Migori and every Kenyan of goodwill should condemn the act. I was happy to see the Secretary General of ODM issue an official statement to condemn the act. I am also glad that the suspected culprits are being arraigned in court. But I am not happy to see the likes of Hon. Kimani Ichungwa and (surprisingly) Prof. Kisiangani demand a specific apology from CORD leader Raila Odinga. From their argument, you could think that perhaps the President was heckled by one of Odinga's sons! A mistake has been committed. Let's not commit other mistakes in form of correcting an earlier mistake PLEASE. Kenya is still hurting. Let's be mindful of what we say, especially on National Television.
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