Texas A&M University announced Thursday that a student may have contracted a new type of virus believed to have originated in China.

The Brazos County Health District informed Texas A&M University about the situation on Thursday.

"Texas A&M continues to work with its Student Health Services and the Brazos County Health District," according to a statement released by the university. "Officials have described the immediate health risk to the campus community as low."

According to the Associated Press: "At least 17 people have died in the outbreak, all of them in and around Wuhan. Close to 600 have been infected, the vast majority of them in Wuhan, and many countries have begun screening travelers from China for symptoms of the virus, which can cause fever, coughing, trouble breathing and pneumonia."