1.   Campaigners argue that poor countries faced with a health emergency have a right under international trade legislation to buy generic drugs.

2.   And declaring a national health emergency, it has been licensing AIDS drug patents awarded since then to government laboratories, which make generics for the free drug program.

3.   A subsequent investigation by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said the Indian Health Service made mistakes in its handling of the Shoalwater health emergency.

4.   Compulsory licenses are permitted in health emergencies under international trade agreements.

5.   Few Asian governments are prepared for the health emergency that is nearly upon them.

6.   Gov. Ann Richards has said the epidemic of canine rabies in South Texas is a health emergency and has called for a concerted effort to halt its spread.

7.   Gov. Ann Richards two weeks ago declared a state health emergency because of the rabies problem, which has been particularly menacing in West-Central and South Texas.

8.   He discounted claims by state officials that the spread of Lyme disease constituted a health emergency warranting the immediate repeal of the ban.

9.   In Oakland, Calif., the same health emergency was declared, but police routinely shut down exchanges and operators are arrested and prosecuted.

10.   On a longer-term basis, the CDC wants states to update laws on quarantining, compulsory vaccinations, and other responses to a health emergency.