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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...

IEBC IS AUDITING AND REVIEWING ELECTRORAL LAWS

Via their official facebook page Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission(IEBC) says

"We are auditing and reviewing the electoral laws. With the support of experts in electoral laws, we will make recommendations for the election law to be amended in various areas such as election campaign financing, nomination and dispute resolution, Diaspora voting, voter registration and election technology. We are certainly drawing invaluable lessons from the last general election and the by- elections thereafter. For example, shouldn’t we have a time limit to the withdrawal of a candidate from an election? Such last minute changes in the electoral process are costly and must be managed."

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