The phrase "afflict more than" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the impact or suffering caused by something, typically in a comparative context.
Example: "The disease tends to afflict more than just the elderly; it can also affect younger individuals."
Alternatives: "cause suffering to more than" or "impact more than".
Serious eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia and binge eating, afflict more than 30 million Americans, and millions more experience disordered eating and weight control behaviors.
How should the nation confront a disease projected to afflict more than 13 million Americans by 2050 — a disease gaining on cancer as the illness Americans dread most?
The studies, published Thursday in The New England Journal of Medicine, examined infections that develop at the site of surgery, often around the incision, and afflict more than 300,000 patients a year in the United States.
Sinus infections — which afflict more than 37 million Americans every year — generally occur when the lining of the sinuses becomes inflamed, trapping air and pus and other secretions, and leading to pain, headaches and congestion.
Aggression is perhaps the most significant of the behavioral problems that may afflict more than 20percentt of the nation's 65 million dogs, because it can lead to injury and death.
New York, with its ambitious and highly praised public health system, has just three people and a $950,000 budget to outwit diabetes, a disease soon expected to afflict more than a million people in the city.
afflicts more than ninety-two per cent of the population.
Alzheimer's currently afflicts more than five million Americans and the number could triple by 2050.
Loss of funding (L.O.F). afflicts more than ninety-two per cent of the population.
Hearing loss is the most common sensory disorder in the United States, afflicting more than 36 million people.
Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma afflicts more than 65,000 people a year, and kills more than 19,000, according to the National Cancer Institute.
