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Ms. Fox is Health and Science Correspondent for Reuters, the international news agency. She is currently coordinating avian flu coverage globally for the agency, which has bureaus in 196 countries around the world. Reuters has bureaus in virtually all the countries affected by bird flu, including Vietnam, China, Indonesia, and Thailand.Ms. Fox has been with Reuters for 16 years and started out as an old-fashioned “general news” reporter in London covering everything from the British royal family to the war in Bosnia before taking on the medical and science beat. Before joining Reuters, Ms. Fox was a correspondent in Hong Kong for U.S. and Canadian radio and television networks and several newspapers, covering Asia and, before that, the war in Lebanon. She moved to Washington in 1997 and began covering topics ranging from heart disease to cloning—and the risk of either a biological attack by humans or a natural pandemic. She has completed fellowships at the National Institutes of Health on genomics, at Harvard Medical School on infectious disease, and at the University of Maryland on child and family health policy. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of South Carolina. |
