It is a synthetic version of the naturally occurring coagulation protein that is missing or deficient in people with hemophilia A, an ailment that afflicts about 13,000 Americans.
Migraine, a neurological disease, afflicts about 1 in 10 Americans.
It afflicts about 100 babies a year, rendering them unable to process the amino acid leucine.
By contrast, it afflicts about 100,000 dogs a year in the United States.
Nationwide, nickel allergy afflicts about 3 percent of men and nearly 20 percent of women.
It afflicts about 34,000 people a year and kills 8,000.
Human granulocytic ehrlichiosis afflicts about 70 people each year in Connecticut.
Malawi has not been spared this scourge, which currently afflicts about 12percentt of its people.
BUTLER: It afflicts about four and a half million people now.
Cause Unknown Hives of one sort or another afflicts about one person in five at some time during their lives.
Rituxan becomes the fifth drug developed by biotechnology for rheumatoid arthritis, a disease that afflicts about two million Americans.
