I once owned a home in the northern woods built by Finlanders . It had a small two room sauna hut (changing room and the sauna itself) built in the back yard fueled by wood fire heating river rocks . When I would catch a virus I would stoke up the sauna and after a half hour in the steam the symptoms would disappear , but return to the house and within an hour felt the symptoms return .
I postulate that the equatorial African nations regularly take Ivermectin to prevent river blindness , but also are hot and too poor for air conditioning systems , so viruses do not do well .