71.   Health officers test drinking water quality daily in the flooded areas, and call on residents to use only tap water.

72.   Health Minister Patricio Jamriska said the government was considering declaring a health emergency in the flooded areas.

73.   Health officials said they have begun to see cases of dengue, a mosquito-borne illness, as well as skin and respiratory infections in the flooded areas.

74.   However, only about one-sixth of the farmers in flooded areas have any insurance.

75.   However, only about one-sixth of the farmers in flooded areas have any kind of insurance.

76.   Hundreds of people had to be evacuated from flooded areas near San Jose, the capital, as well as Cartago, Puntarenas and the Atlantic port of Limon.

77.   Hungary expects several thousand people evacuated from flooded areas in neighboring Ukraine, the Hungarian Water Management minister said Saturday.

78.   Illinois Gov. George Ryan toured flooded areas by helicopter on Saturday and said his state would resume efforts to buy out homes in flood-prone areas.

79.   In all the flooded areas, large areas of paddy field have reportedly been destroyed.

80.   In neighboring Nicaragua, the government declared an emergency and sent army helicopters with food, medicine and blankets to flooded areas.