Sentence examples for afflicts as from inspiring English sources

One broad form of discrimination affects people who have hepatitis B, a liver disease that afflicts as many as 120 million Chinese, almost 10percentt of the population.

He suffers from sleep apnea, a snoring-related disorder that afflicts as many as 30 million Americans and that has been linked to heart disease, strokes, high blood pressure, daytime fatigue and irritability.

Mr. Cloud, 58, has suffered for much of his adult life from narcolepsy, a little-understood sleep disorder that afflicts as many as 100,000 to 200,000 Americans.

Jean, who lives in Phoenix, suffers from a condition called irritable bowel syndrome, or I.B.S., a chronic disorder of a seemingly normal gut that national surveys have indicated afflicts as many as one person in five, 70percentt of them women.

Thomas Egwang of the Medical Biotechnology Labs in Kampala, Uganda, who recalls "breaking into a grin and punching the air in delight" upon hearing about his grant, will teach how to apply advanced molecular biology techniques to studies of river blindness, a fly-borne parasitic disease that afflicts as many as 20 million people worldwide.

ED afflicts as many as 30 million men in the U.S., Vivus said.

Experts say the results could herald a new era in treating a sometimes fatal disease that is often overlooked, despite afflicting as many as 3.9 million Americans and 170 million people worldwide.

This is hardly limited to New Yorkers, of course -- it is believed to afflict as much as 20percentt of the population and causes many people in northern latitudes to spend the winter beset by blues.

Medical officials say they believe that there are at least 73 cases here in the capital and, based on outbreaks in other countries, they fear that cholera may become a way of life that could afflict as many as 270,000 people over the next several years.

Prince-ruled territories, especially Kashmir and Hyderabad, were afflicted, as well as the directly controlled British locales.

Millions of others similarly dread the onset of a migraine, although many are not afflicted as severely as Sundquist.