A man thought to be homeless is at “low risk” for Ebola, authorities said in a press conference on Sunday.
Authorities in Dallas have reportedly found Michael Lively, a homeless man they were looking for who may have come in contact with U.S. Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan.
During a press conference on Sunday, Dallas County Judge Clay Lewis Jenkins did not identify the person, who he described as a "low-risk individual," but a CBS reporter tweeted the man thought to be Lively. He reportedly rode in the same ambulance as Duncan.
Judge Jenkins said that they were looking for the man as a precautionary measure, and asked him to come forward if he could hear him, stating that he had not committed any crimes.
"We are working to locate the individual and get him to a comfortable, compassionate place where we can monitor him and care for his every need for the full incubation period," Jenkins said.
CBS Dallas reporter J.D. Miles tweeted that officials described Lively as a "panhandler," and that he was found and being taken to Parkland Hospital for treatment. Duncan is currently being treated for Ebola at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.
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