71.   A deputy prosecutor, Nina Alexander, cited the death of Margaret Hornick, one of the seven patients.

72.   After one year, half of those getting the device were still alive, compared with one-quarter of the other patients.

73.   All the other patients are men who are thought to have contracted the disease after cutting up and eating a chimpanzee found dead in the forest.

74.   After eight weeks, half of those in the test group had no measurable virus in their blood, compared with one-quarter of the other patients.

75.   Besides the two patients, the aircraft carried a nurse, two pilots, and two technicians, he said.

76.   Before the trial, Fine was dropped from the witness list by prosecutors, who had initially hired him to evaluate medical records of the five patients.

77.   Earlier on Saturday in Paris, Health Ministry officials said they were still investigating if the three patients had Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

78.   Four of the six patients had modest increases of blood clotting protein.

79.   He gradually wins over the other patients, but earns the hatred of the authoritarian Nurse Ratched.

80.   He said the five patients were terminally ill and could have been in pain.