The World Health Organisation have issued some towel washing advice after it was revealed that as many as 1.5m Brits wash their towels just once a year. Get the latest top news stories sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter We have more newsletters Get the latest top news stories sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter We have more newsletters After the first case of Mpox in Europe was detected earlier this month, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued some strict hygiene guidance regarding laundry routines following a study that found as many as 1.
5m Brits only wash their towels once a year. WHO declared a global public health emergency after the most dangerous variant of mpox, which is spreading rapidly in Africa, was discovered in Sweden last week with fears it'll soon reach the UK. New guidance has been released amid the mpox breakout, advising against sharing towels and highlighting the importance of washing them at high temperatures to kill germs.
Freshly washed towels contain 190,000 counts of bacteria, increasing to 17m after just one day of use and soaring to as high as 94m after one week. Despite this, a survey from shower specialists, Showers to You , has revealed that out of twenty UK cities, Glasgow has been named as the second highest city for people who only wash towels every three months or longer. Figures found that 4 in 10 people (41%) in the Scots city admit to only washing their towels every three months at the most.
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