MBDS Secretariat - Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance

The Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance (MBDS) consortium comprises six participating countries: Cambodia, China (Yunnan and Guangxi Provinces), Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam and a growing number of development partners who together seek to reduce morbidity and mortality caused by outbreak-prone diseases in the sub-region. MBDS countries have been working together since 2001to progressively build local capacity, share information, and cooperate in outbreak response and pandemic influenza preparedness ... read more

VIETNAM

Land area : 331,691 sq km Population : 84,200,000 (mid-2006) Sources: U.N. Human Development Report 2006, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Paci...
THAILAND

Land area : 513,000 sq km Population : 65,200,000 (mid-2006) Sources: U.N. Human Development Report 2006, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the...
MYANMAR (BURMA)

Land area : 677,000 sq km Population : 51,000,000 (mid-2006) Sources: U.N. Human Development Report 2006, United Nations Economic and S...
LAO PDR

Land area : 237,000 sq km Population : 6,100,000 (mid-2006) Sources: U.N. Human Development Report 2006, United Nations Economic ...
CHINA

Land area : 394,000 sq km Population : 44,152,000 (2004) Sources: U.N. Human Development Report 2006, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pac...

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Yala measles outbreak worsens despite officials ongoing effo...

The measles outbreak in Yala has worsened with 859 children now having been infected and the death toll standing at 10 cases, Betong district health official Wongwit Akarawa...

November 10, 2018