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...
Leaflets are being circulated around Kangundo road warning Luos, Luhyas and Kisiis to leave the area before they are violently evicted. The warnings started to circulate on Tuesday this week, right before the early Wednesday morning destruction of structures along the road. The land bordering the road around Obama, Komarocks, Saika and Njiru estates have been under dispute. The dispute has led to the assassination of around 4 land dealers who were behind the allocations. It is believed that the people behind the evictions are also behind the assassination of the people they believe illegally allocated their chunks of land to individuals. One of the leaflets The police need to move in and contain the situation before something bad happens.
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