61.   Institute officials also warned that smoking marijuana can cause respiratory disease and recommended development of forms of the drug that could be taken in other ways.

62.   Last year, haze from forest fires in Indonesia blanketed neighboring countries, causing factories and offices to close and triggering a spate of respiratory diseases.

63.   Malaria, diarrhea and respiratory disease take their toll on the exhausted and malnutrished.

64.   Many others had respiratory diseases and diarrhea, he said.

65.   Medicines called macrolides are a standard treatment for many bacterial infections that cause respiratory diseases.

66.   Most of the victims are either very young or very old and suffered from respiratory diseases.

67.   Old people and those with heart or respiratory diseases were advised to minimize physical exertion.

68.   Recent forest fires in Malaysia and Indonesia have caused extensive environmental damage and blanketed much of Southeast Asia in haze, bringing an increase in respiratory diseases.

69.   Pollution has led to increases in malignant tumors, and respiratory diseases have become the leading cause of death in rural areas, it said.

70.   Respiratory diseases and colds are rampant, along with malnutrition and digestive tract diseases, he said.