10 FEBRUARY 1998. ECUADOR: IMPACT

Reuters and Associated Press: Flooding and landslides have killed 108 and left 28,000 homeless since ENSO conditions began last year. Cholera cases already total 3,084, as many as all of last year. Agricultural production has lost $200 million and there has been a further $400 million in damage to infrastructure. Ecuador revised its gross domestic product growth down to 2.5 percent because of ENSO effects in nine of the country's 21 regions.

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