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Crowds Flood Free Clinic at New Orleans Zoo

NPR

By Audie Cornish

Published February 8, 2006 at 2:05 PM EST

Sign near the elephant enclosure points patients to the free clinics set up in tents at the Audubon Zoo.

A patient gets his blood pressure checked at a clinic in the Audubon Zoo.

Copyright 2006 NPR

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