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A Pakistani woman holds on to her son as they ride a boat to higher grounds at flood-hit Sehwan division, southern Pakistan on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010. The floods have caused some 8 million people homeless in what Pakistani and U.N. officials have said is one of the largest humanitarian disasters in living memory.

Aaron Favila / AP

A Pakistani boy does a backflip from the roof of a house as he plays with other villagers in the floodwaters of Sehwan division on Tuesday.

The saga of the Pakistan floods is (still) not over.

The numbers behind these two very human pictures are staggering:

Bloomberg reports that the floods have destroyed $3.27 Billion worth of crops and that "the floods affected 20 million people, killing more than 1,700 and damaging 1.9 million homes, according to the United Nations." The impact will continue. British charity Plan UK projects over two million cases of malaria.

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