Dallas authorities have located a homeless man who might have had indirect contact with Ebola patient Thomas Duncan, city officials said Sunday.
The unidentified individual, who is considered low risk, reportedly rode in the ambulance after Duncan, according to The Dallas Morning News.
The announcement comes a few hours after Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said the man was missing.
Earlier Sunday, Jenkins explained that the man did not show symptoms of the deadly virus but officials would like to keep an eye on him during the full incubation period as a precaution.
Duncan is the first person to test positive for Ebola while in the U.S. He is now in critical condition at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital.
His situation has 'taken a turn for the worse' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Dr. Tom Frieden said. No other information was given.
The 42-year-old contracted the virus while in Liberia and developed symptoms four days after arriving in Texas.
Officials have identified 10 'high risk' people who were likely in direct contact with Duncan, including seven health care workers and three family or community members.
There are 38 others who may have been around Duncan when he was showing symptoms of the virus, Frieden said.
So far, no members of either group have developed Ebola symptoms.
Frieden said on ABC News' 'This Week' that he is still 'quite confident' there will not be a widespread Ebola outbreak in the United States.
'We will stop it in its tracks, because we've got infection control in hospitals and public health that tracks and isolates people if they get symptoms,' he said.
The deadly Ebola virus has killed more than 3,400 people in West Africa since early 2014.
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