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 Collins Ajuok 1. His entire plan was premised on Raila being unacceptable as Uhuru's successor. It was meant to be a straightforward failure. It didn't go according to plan. 2. For some strange reason, he and his supporters assumed Uhuru was playing Raila. Apparently Uhuru was to switch to Ruto at the last minute. No one remembers who came up with this crazy idea. 3. Ruto always banked heavily on his tribe being "unbetrayable". Bad things were meant to happen to any tribe which betrayed the Kalenjin. That tribe was specifically the Kikuyu. But Uhuru has "betrayed" Ruto as an individual and Ruto desperately needs the Kikuyu. So his tribe can't go after the Kikuyu because he wants the impression that Kikuyu masses are with him. 4. Related to 3 above, Ruto's community cannot threaten any other tribe but the Kikuyu. They have no political deal with their neighbours the Luo and the Luhya, while the Pokot are more bad news where threats are concerned...