"affliction by" is a perfectly valid phrase in written English, and can be used to signify the cause of some kind of suffering or difficulty.
For example, "The people of the area suffer from affliction by famine every year."
Last year I treated this affliction by buying a botanical print at an antiques show.
Constant affliction by bee stings can result in a struggle to meet deadlines and disfigurement by swelling.
Your Majesty, we have gone mad, and you alone can cure our affliction, by keeping your taps shut.
All machinery political as well as mechanical is susceptible to affliction by bugs of all kinds as well as builtin deficiencies.
We investigated clinical fenomenology of psychopathologic disturbance of patients, suffering affliction by a exchange obesity, the differentiated schemes of a psychotherapy are designed and influencing psychotherapeutic tactics on efficiency of complex therapy of this group patients is detected.
Nudged by her mother, Hazel attends a support group, headed by a bearded Jesus freak, filled with fellow cancer kids, and in her spare time reads books like The Imperial Affliction by cult Dutch author Peter Van Houten.
"I wanted to try and reach in the book a suggestion that impediments -- or things that are seen as afflictions by 'normal' society -- can actually be enhancing, that they are part of how you experience being alive, he said.
When Congress passed the Children's Health Act of 2000, which called for more research into rare childhood diseases, the legislation singled out two afflictions by name: HGPS and Friedreich's ataxia, a degenerative nerve disorder that impairs muscle coordination.
Rather, he says, it would be. the record of what had had to be done, and what assuredly would have to be done again in the never ending fight against terror and its relentless onslaughts, despite their personal afflictions, by all who, while unable to be saints but refusing to bow down to pestilences, strive their utmost to be healers.
We here report the applicability of our nematode biosensors for the discovery and evaluation of functional food ingredients that serve as anti-ageing agents or protectives against health afflictions, by using allyl isothiocyanate (AITC) as a model functional food ingredient.
"It could be only the record of what had had to be done, and what assuredly would have to be done… despite their personal afflictions, by all who, while unable to be saints but refusing to bow down to pestilences, strive their utmost to be healers".
