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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...

Raila Odinga asks the world and USA in particular to STOP giving advisory warnings to its citizens willing to visit Kenya

Raila Odinga in his engagement with the International Community from Yale University said quote; "You are TEN TIMES safer in Nairobi than in Chicago and 100 TIMES safer in Kenya than in Israel or Egypt. Why double standards? Terrorism is a GLOBAL PROBLEM." He asked the world and United States of America in particular to STOP giving advisory warnings to its citizens willing to visit Kenya.On global economy, trade and investment, Raila said quote; "The Asian Tiger has danced for far too long. The African Lion is roaring and positioning itself to take its rightful place."

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