"It's also fine in humidities above 98%, which you find in the rainy season in the tropics, " she says, where the conditions outside resemble the environment the virus finds in the body.
Many people say they feel nervous living here, especially now in the rainy season.
Every day in the rainy season Dr Formenty sets traps for animals suspected of hosting the virus.
Malaria is always a risk in the rainy season but the flooding is expected to make the situation worse.
Death seems ever-present in the slum, where a fever or disease easily caught from unclean water in the rainy season can claim a life without much warning.
Brazilian authorities have been criticized for a lack of disaster planning, and for allowing people to build homes in areas known to become treacherous in the rainy season.
In the rainy season, which can last for over half the year, getting from one side of town to the other, let alone elsewhere in the state, can become impossible.
The primary school counts 430 students and 17 teachers, grapples with classic problems of rural schools in many parts of the world from overcrowding and lack of clean water to difficulty in growing much-needed shade trees and river overflows in the rainy season.
"We have not found any ancient objects linked to the context, and because the paintings are on ravine walls and in the rainy season the sediments are washed away, all we have is gravel, " said archaeologist Gustavo Ramirez, from the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History (Inah).
The diving is phenomenal year-round, but the crossing to the reef can be rough in the peak rainy season (July to September) and from December to February when the northeast monsoon winds are at their strongest.
The threat has been compounded, she said, by the pending rainy season in Mali which usually begins in the middle of June.
In the rainy, summer season, when the tourists are gone and the temperature soars, he devotes himself full time to the cattle side of his business.
Residents could soon begin encountering them more often, crunching them underfoot as the snails emerge from underground hibernation at the start of the state's rainy season in seven weeks, Ms Feiber told the Reuters news agency.
"We'll be cautious in scheduling matches during the rainy season, " said BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah.
Within Cambodia, the major factions are intensifying their jockeying for power, including preparations for military offensives before the rainy season begins in May.
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Flooding is cyclical in the country, but the rainy season this year has been devastating.
Heavy rain is typical this time of year in Costa Rica, where the rainy season runs roughly from May-November.
It even failed to see to it that the drains in Jakarta were cleaned before the rainy season, causing unusually severe flooding earlier this year.
And in parallel, we must prepare the rainy season, which just last week has already caused the deaths of 15 people.
Neither made allowances in their calendar for the World Cup, which started slightly earlier this time in a failed attempt to defeat Asia's rainy season.
At the end of the rainy season, the hilltop Dhamma Giri meditation centre in the small Maharashtran town of Igatpuri glistens.
After going undefeated at home last season, the Galaxy was struggling in the cold and rainy championship match.
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Most people think the Amazon is the place to go to see Brazilian flora and fauna, but the Pantanal region is easily just as rich in animals and they're easier to spot, especially during rainy season when rivers rise forcing animals literally onto islands.
The rainy season is fast approaching and there are still more than a million people sleeping on basketball courts and in riverbeds and hospital car parks beneath hastily constructed shelters and donated tents.
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