The phrase "afflicted during" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a state of suffering or distress that occurs within a specific time frame or event.
Example: "Many individuals were afflicted during the natural disaster, facing both physical and emotional challenges."
Alternatives: "suffered during" or "troubled during".
But he was afflicted during his time there with what seems to have been a peptic or gastric ulcer, had to return home and suffered chronic ill health for the rest of his life.
Next to nothing is known, she adds, about a host of basic questions, like whether most women with the condition have been affected from the start of their sexual lives or became afflicted during the course of adulthood.
Depressive disorders are very common in clinical practice, with approximately 11.3% of all adults afflicted during any one year [ 1].
A similar despairing mockery attends satires of Sister Mary Corita Kent's saccharine peace-and-love graphics, which had afflicted Kelley during his Catholic boyhood.
Martinez declared that the team had overcome a "mental block" which had afflicted them during their 21-year search for a win here.
American statesman and physician Benjamin Rush, who treated afflicted patients during the Philadelphia epidemic, provided the first clinical description of dengue in his Account of the Bilious, Remitting Fever, which was published in 1789.
Ryckmans exposed the cruelty and upheaval that afflicted China during that period, most notably in his book The Chairman's New Clothes (1971), for which he first adopted the pseudonym Simon Leys.
In this new book he asserts that deep traditions of anti-Jewish thought and action in the church led it to a morally afflicted choice during World War II, namely "that allowing or abetting the Germans' and their helpers' persecution of the Jews and even letting the Jews die was preferable to intervening on their behalf".
Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Centre, which purports to unmask "liberal bias", said that Mr Cain had predicted months ago that he might face a "high-tech lynching" like the accusations of sexual harassment that afflicted Clarence Thomas during his confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court.
We undertook to study the risks for hypertension, glucose intolerance and overweight forty years after fetal exposure to famine afflicted Biafra during the Nigerian civil war (1967 1970).
The kidney is one of the most frequently afflicted organs during sepsis and AKI may complicate up to half of the cases of blood culture-positive septic shock [ 2].
