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...
Kenyans have been urged to be extra careful to avoid crowded places and to report any suspicious looking persons following reports that Al-Shabaab terrorists were planning to strike Kenya on 21stof September during the commemoration of last year’s Westgate Mall terror attack that left 70 people dead and scores injured. Credible sources within intel circles say that Al-Shabaab plan to use the day to cause more bloodshed and damage to revenge the death of their leader, Ahmed Godane, who was killed last week in a US airstrike in Somalia. “They are known to use such occasions to cause more injury and sufferings and we urge Kenyans not to ignore the Intel because it is credible. But we are prepared for them,” said Nicholas Kamwende, the Nairobi CID boss. “We are doing our best and we have enough personnel to counter them,” he added. Al-Shabaab have vowed to kill as many Americans as possible be it in Kenya or in the US for killing their leader and as such, their attacks may be targeted on US installations and interests in East Africa.
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