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Washington announces more aid for floods-ravaged Pakistan

Pakistani health workers fumigate to kill mosquitos in an effort to prevent an outbreak of dengue fever, in Islamabad, Pakistan. Monday, Sept. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, meets with Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari at the State Department in Washington, Monday, Sept. 26, 2022. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool via AP)

A Pakistani patient suffering from dengue fever, a mosquito-borne disease, is treated in an isolation ward, at a hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022. Pakistan has deployed thousands of additional doctors and paramedics in the country's worst flood-hit province to contain the spread of diseases that have killed hundreds of people among the flood victims, officials said Friday. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Pakistan's Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari trade places to deliver remarks after their meeting, Monday, Sept. 26, 2022, at the State Dept. in Washington. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool via AP)

Washington announces more aid for floods-ravaged Pakistan