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...
A majority of candidates that sat for the 2016 KCSE exams scored grades D- and E, falling below the threshold for public university placements. Results released by Education CS Fred Matiang'i on Thursday show that 149,929 candidates scored D-, while 33,399 students scored E. Matiang'i said 141 candidates scored As, 4,645 candidates scored A- and 10,975 scored B+. "This is a true reflection of candidates’ result, without manipulation and massaging of the results," the CS said. Matiang'i said all the 88,929 who scored between A and C+ will be absorbed into the universities
Why such a poor performance from our students?Does it mean no standardization of the results was done?If for instance all students scored below 50% in a certain subject wouldn't some still score A plain? This means grades are not pre-fixed. They are determined at the end of the marking. If that is the case, then which criteria was used to come up with only 88,929 students who scored C+...