The phrase "afflict all" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to express that something negative or harmful is impacting everyone or everything involved.
Example: "The disease began to afflict all members of the community, leading to widespread concern."
Alternatives: "affect everyone" or "trouble all".
"Bullshit," he repeated, and I reflected on how unoriginal he was, how limited and ignorant and borne down under the weight of the superstition and the greed that afflict all the suffering hordes like him.
Unemployment, crime and the scourge of AIDS afflict all South Africans to varying degrees.
Yet we understand the impulse – to touch, to taste, to overpower time, to attempt to rein back the random tragedies that afflict all of our lives.
If the American League East race is over by June when the Yankees have an insurmountable lead, boredom will afflict all fans, including those of the Yankees.
The remote location, the lack of resources and a generalised mood of dissatisfaction seem to afflict all doctors in this part of Massachusetts, with Pittsfield suffering an especially bad case.
It may be that England's medical team are merely being careful but it is easy to speculate that Anderson's 33-year-old body is simply more susceptible to the strains and stresses that afflict all bowlers.
It afflicts all the members of the small suburban household headed by a middle-aged war widow and her bachelor brother (Lesley Manville and Sam Kelly, both superb).
I faked letters, I summoned a horrible plague that afflicted all the residents of our block, every one of our acquaintances possessed some satanic trait, and they all plotted against us.
The other problem afflicts all hydrogen-powered vehicles, including those using fuel cells.
Two other benefits: transferring knowledge to Bain's bigger clients, and helping stem the raft of defections to dot.coms that is afflicting all the top consulting firms.
A century later, versions of fundamentalism afflict nearly all the major world religions from India to the Vatican.
