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Thailand prepares to send a team of 30 medical staff to Yangon to work in cyclone-stricken Myanmar. Two weeks have passed since a deadly cyclone hit Myanmar, killing more than 133,000 people and leaving hundreds of thousands more injured or homeless. In the last 50 years, only two Asian cyclones have exceeded Cyclone Nargis in terms of human cost -- a 1970 storm that killed 500,000 people in neighbouring Bangladesh, and another that killed 143,000 in 1991, also in Bangladesh. However, with an estimated 2.5 million people clinging to survival in the delta, and the military government refusing to admit large-scale outside relief, disaster experts say Nargis' body count could yet rise dramatically. Cases of cholera, endemic to much of the former Burma, have been found although the number of outbreaks are no more than would normally be seen at this time of year, health officials said. Thailand prepared to send a medical team to Myanmar on Saturday (May 17) . The military C-130 aircraft was set to leave, awaiting approval from Myanmar's air traffic controllers who are handling a lot of traffic as international aid flights arrive. The team of 30 medical staff including surgeons, anesthetists, psychiatrists, psychologist and veterinarian will travel with another 10 tonnes of supplies and equipment to work around a 20-km radius of Yangon. The team would be rotated every two weeks and about 100 medical staff are on standby if they are really needed for emergency case, Thai offi...