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ByLefterisPitarakis The Associated Press MURSITPINAR,TURKEY In a dramatic appeal, a U.N. official warned that hun- dreds of civilians who re- main trapped in the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani near the border with Tur- keywerelikelytobe"massa- cred" by advancing extrem- ists and called on Ankara to help prevent a catastrophe. Staffan de Mistura, the U.N. Syria envoy, raised the specter of some of the worst genocides of the 20th century during a news conference in Ge- neva to underscore con- cerns as the Islamic State group pushed into Kobani from the south and east. "You remember Sre- brenica? We do. We never forgot. And probably we never forgave ourselves for that," he said, refer- ring to the 1995 slaughter of thousands of Muslims by Bosnian Serb forces. Hespoketoreportersata press conference in Geneva where he held up a map of KobaniandsaidaU.N.anal- ysis shows only a small cor- ridor remains open for peo- ple to enter or flee the town. His warning came as the Islamic State group seized the so-called "Kurd- ish security quarter" — an area where Kurdish mili- tiamen who are struggling to defend the town main- tain security buildings and where the police sta- tion, the municipality and other local government of- fices are located. The onslaught by the Is- lamic State group on Ko- bani, which began in mid- September, has forced more than 200,000 to flee across the border into Tur- key. Activists say the fight- ing has already killed more than 500 people. De Mistura said there were 500 to 700 elderly people and other civilians still trapped there while 10,000 to 13,000 remain stuck in an area nearby, close to the border. "The city is in danger," said Farhad Shami, a Kurd- ishactivistinKobani.Here- portedheavyfightingonthe town'ssouthernandeastern sides and said the Islamic State group was bringing in more reinforcements. U.S.-led airstrikes against the extremists ap- pear to have failed to blunt the militants' push on Ko- bani. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that with the new advances, the Islamic State group was now in control of 40 percent of the town. SYRIA UN warns of massacre if militants take town By Emily Schmall The Associated Press DALLAS Thomas Eric Dun- can's temperature spiked to 103 degrees during the hours of his initial visit to an emergency room — a fe- ver that was flagged with an exclamation point in the hospital's record-keep- ing system, his medical re- cords show. Despite telling a nurse that he had recently been in Africa and displaying other symptoms that could indi- cate Ebola, the man who would become the only per- son to die from the disease in the U.S. underwent a bat- tery of tests and was even- tually sent home. Duncan's family pro- vided his medical records to The Associated Press — more than 1,400 pages in all. They encompass his time in the ER, his urgent return to the hospital two days later and his steep de- cline as his organs began to fail. In a statement issued Fri- day, Texas Health Presby- terian Hospital said it had made procedural changes and continues to "review and evaluate" the decisions surrounding Duncan's care. Duncan carried the deadly virus with him from his home in Liberia, though he showed no symptoms when he left for the United States. He arrived in Dallas on Sept. 20 and fell ill sev- eral days later. When he first showed up at the hospital, the man complained of abdominal pain, dizziness, a headache and decreased urination. He reported severe pain — rating it an eight on a scale of 10. Doctors gave him CT scans to rule out ap- pendicitis, stroke and nu- merous other serious ail- ments. Ultimately, he was prescribed antibiotics and told to take Tylenol, then returned to the apartment where he was staying with a Dallas woman and three other people. "I have given patient in- structions regarding their diagnosis, expectations for the next couple of days, and specific return precautions," according to the emergency room physician's note. "The condition of the patient at this time is stable." After Duncan's condition worsened, someone in the apartment called 911, and paramedics took him back to the hospital on Sept. 28. That's when he was admit- ted and swiftly put in iso- lation. Josephus Weeks, Dun- can's nephew, said the care his uncle received was "ei- ther incompetence or neg- ligence." Either way "there is a problem, and we need to find the answer to it," he said, adding that it was "conspicuous" that all the white Ebola patients in the U.S. survived "and the one black man died." The documents also show that a nurse recorded early in Duncan's first hospital visit that he recently came to the U.S. from Africa, though he denied having been in contact with any- one sick. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had alerted hospitals nation- wide to take a travel history for patients with Ebola-like symptoms. According to the records, Duncan was 45. Relatives said he was 42. The discrep- ancy could not be immedi- ately resolved. The hospital said it had made changes to its intake process and other practices "to better screen for all crit- ical indicators" of Ebola. Doctors who evaluated Duncan did not respond to messages left at their offices by the AP. A spokeswoman for the Texas Department of State Health Services said the agency was considering investigating the hospital for compliance with state health and safety laws. EBOLA Patient's temperature spiked to 103 degrees ALLENG.BREED—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Josephus Weeks, nephew of Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan, who died earlier this week in Dallas, sits behind a stack of medical documents in a hotel room on Friday in Kannapolis, N.C. 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