The phrase "a malady of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a disease or disorder affecting a particular aspect or area, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "The community is facing a malady of distrust that has hindered progress."
Alternatives: "an affliction of" or "a condition of".
"Fascism is a malady of failed democracies," Mr. Paxton has written in his own definition.
Daniel B. Verdin, a senior Republican state senator from South Carolina, called illegal immigration "a malady of epic proportions," which he said compared with "the malady of slavery".
It's both a mutedly angry political exposé and a metaphysical mystery concerning the spread of a malady, of political origins, that could be called soullessness.
For a start wheelchair fencing is one of the more broadly pitched and inclusive Paralympic sports, a discipline open to anybody with a malady of the leg that effectively rules out Olympic-standard competition.
Mention it to Americans and their minds jump immediately to "Chinese restaurant syndrome," a malady of after-dinner headaches, flushing and dizziness for which MSG has long been blamed.
Endometrial cancer is largely a malady of affluent, developed societies, showing a more than 10-fold variation between high- and low-incidence countries (Parkin et al, 1999).
So we have a situation, call it a cultural malady, of the most basic sort — a failure of sufficient detail (that is, literary detail) to inform our assessments.
When this meets a cultural need for escapism, a common malady of mountain culture due to its isolation, a cycle of addiction is inescapable.
Sinus squeeze is a common malady of persons flying in unpressurized aircraft and of divers.
Joyce goes on to add in his 1918 letter that the book has "also been delayed by my illness this year – a grave malady of the eyes to which I am subject".
This was a common malady of old New York.
