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...
Kenya today woke to the sad news of the killing in cold blood of outspoken government critic business man Jacob Juma. The question which lingers in many Kenyans mind is whether this was a normal criminal act or was it a planned assassination?Whatever the case,it is the duty of the government to assure security to each and every Kenyan. Human life is very precious,no amount of material things can substitute it.It's unfortunate Kenya continues its great sons in cold blood killings at this age and time.If a government can't afford to assure security to all its citizens then there is no need of having one,which means it will be the duty of individual citizen to ensure he/she is safe.Our security apparatus should with immediate effect rise to the occasion and ensure we are all safe, otherwise no sooner than later before Kenyans gets fed up and do away with this government thing.Today was Jacob Juma we can't afford loosing another great son tomorrow.No matter what human life so precious to be lost.May justice be our shield and defender.
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