The head of Alberta's tuberculosis clinic says an outbreak in Edmonton's inner city is of little risk to Edmontonians at large.

"The risk of this outbreak spreading to the general population is extremely low,” Dr. Ryan Cooper told CBC News.

“Most of these cases don't appear to reflect transmission in the inner-city. Rather, they reflect reactivation in the setting of other health factors, other social factors.”

Details are slowly emerging from Alberta's government about an active tuberculosis outbreak in Edmonton's shelter system that was quietly declared last month. WATCH | Watch TB outbreak in inner-city Edmonton:

Primary Care Alberta declares tuberculosis outbreak in inner-city Edmonton November 15 | Duration 2:17 A tuberculosis outbreak in Edmonton is primarily impactin

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