The phrase "affliction with" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a condition or illness that someone has. For example, "John was afflicted with arthritis in his joints."
People still question her about Elián González and her affliction with Parkinson's disease and associate her with Bill Clinton's misdeeds.
Guinea worm infection, or dracunculiasis (meaning "affliction with little dragons"), is transmitted by drinking water containing microscopic flealike creatures with worm larvae in their intestines.
Between 1675 and 1682 Mary gave birth to five children, none of whom survived with the blame popularly assigned to James's affliction with venereal disease in the 1660s.
That is because Pochers share an affliction with real Italian cars: the ambitions of those who make them often far exceed their manufacturing abilities.
Howard's success has required him to manage the stress that can exacerbate his affliction with Tourette's syndrome, the neurological disorder that causes repetitive, involuntary movements, like blinking, jerking of the head and tensing of the body.
Fewer than one in ten were stunted or wasting, meaning that in most cases the problem was not lack of calories, but lack of nutrients.China shares this affliction with much of the developing world.
Playing Falstaff in his own film, Welles dramatized his own character, his own genius, his own afflictions, with an agonized self-awareness.
A vocal, controversial wing rejects the need to treat mental afflictions with psychotropic drugs and seeks alternatives to the shifting, often inconsistent care offered by the medical establishment.
Both emerged from their early afflictions with a deep knowledge of business and extraordinarily bold and far-reaching ambitions.In this last respect, however, even Carnegie might have been a bit awed by Mrs Cheung.
"No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness" is attributed to Aristotle in 350BC, and more recent examples of creative types describing their afflictions with great clarity are not hard to find.
Pinpointing oddball conditions and rare afflictions with razor-sharp acuity after lesser doctors have tried and failed to come up with the right illness, House and his team have to cut through physiological red herrings and psychological obstruction to figure out what is ailing the hapless victim of the moment.
