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...
By lawyer paul mwangi
SHOW US HOW TO MOURN, OH LORD Show us how to mourn our son Oh Lord A commandment five child After you heart and ours But for whom you’ve altered The reward for his honour Show us how to mourn our brother Oh Lord Born to us for adversity Yet a friend at all times Who did to the least of us That he may do it to you Show us how to mourn our friend Oh Lord Our people became his people And his home became our home Who gave us the “Greater Love” That he may find yours too Show us how to mourn our comrade Oh Lord Of neither race nor tribe Ideology or creed Who took no identity But of the country he belonged Show us how to mourn Fidel Oh Lord…
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