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...
Heavy fighting erupted in the Island of Kudhaa early on Saturday after heavily armed Al-Shabaab fighters attacked the Interim Jubba Administration soldiers who were controlling the Island since capturing it from the militants months ago. Kudhaa is a small Island located in Southern Somalia and near the port city Kismayu. Details of exact casualties are unclear but a spokesman for Al-Shabaa talking to its broadcaster, Radio Al-Andulus said they have killed more than 40 soldiers of Ahmed Madobe, the leader of the Jubba Interim Administration. Meanwhile residents told the local media that they have seen many bodies laying near water, some decipitated and others having their heads chopped off.
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