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...
President Uhuru Kenyatta, accompanied by his deputy William Ruto, First Lady Margaret Kenyatta and Opposition leaders Raila Odinga, Kalonzo Musyoka and Moses Wetang’ula when they visited KDF soldiers who were injured in the El Adde attack in Somalia and now recuperating at the Defence Forces Memorial Hospital in Nairobi.
The President in honouring the heroes said, “In El Adde, we lost precious lives. These were young Kenyans in the prime of their lives, serving their country in a foreign land. They gave their lives to protect us, and to allow our brothers and sisters in Somalia the precious gift of government, stability and peace that we enjoy.”
“We owe our young soldiers a debt of gratitude, one we can scarcely repay. But honour them we will. Every Kenyan must understand that this is a war that requires that we be united as a nation, that we stand shoulder to shoulder to face the enemy of humanity. That we should not be deterred no matter the challenges they try to push our way.”
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