RPT-ADVISORY-Witness story on flu outbreak

Maggie Fox is health and science editor for Reuters, leading a global team of correspondents. Covering health for 15 years at Reuters, she was before that an international correspondent in countries from Lebanon to Bosnia. Since 2003 she has also been tasked to monitor avian influenza and other pandemic threats. In the following story, slugged WITNESS-FLU and headlined 'WITNESS-The flu scoop that scared me' she tells how last week her work suddenly took a personal turn.