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Officials locate ‘low risk’ homeless man linked to Dallas Ebola patient

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DALLAS – Authorities say they’ve located a homeless man who needs to be monitored because he may have had contact with the lone Ebola patient in the United States.

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Dallas city spokeswoman Sana Syed said the man was located Sunday, a few hours after officials first said he was missing.

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The person is not considered to be one of the 10 people who definitely had contact with Thomas Eric Duncan, who is in critical condition at a Dallas hospital.

Authorities said Sunday that the man is part of a larger group of 38 people who may have been around Duncan when he was showing symptoms of the disease.

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Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins previously called the man a “low-risk individual.”

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