The phrase "afflicts between" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It is not usable in standard contexts, as "afflict" typically requires a direct object and does not pair with "between."
Example: "The disease afflicts many people in the region."
Alternatives: "causes suffering among" or "impacts those in".
ADHD afflicts between 4% and 6% of school-age youth.
OSA is costly and laborious to diagnose, and it's difficult to distinguish genuine OSA – which afflicts between 4% and 10% of the population – from ordinary snoring.
The discovery, described in the March Nature Genetics, strengthens the theory that genes play a role in the neurodegenerative disease and may help researchers track down the causes behind the disorder, which afflicts between 500,000 and 1 million people in the United States alone.
The Promise and the Challenge Here's the promise: There is a cure, a complete cure in a short 12 weeks, for hepatitis C virus (HCV), which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates afflicts between 2.7 and 3.9 million Americans, and which is a leading cause of liver cancer and other devastating health complications.
These festering concerns are symptomatic of a deeper malaise within the Vatican that afflicts relations between Jews and the Roman Catholic church.
The disorder is thought to afflict between one and four per cent of Americans and tends to run in families, although no genes for it have been identified.
Dementia, a degenerative condition that impairs memory, thinking, and independent functioning, is estimated to afflict between 3 and 5 million people in the United States and 35 million people worldwide.
When George Howarth, the Labour MP for Knowsley North, chaired a working party on electoral rules in 1999, he reported that the electoral register of 44.2m voters was afflicted by between 4m and 5m omissions and inaccuracies of one kind of another - an error rate of about 10%.
Then the California Public Utilities Commission determined that most of the blackouts that afflicted California between November 2000 and May 2001 took place not because generating capacity was inadequate, but because the major power companies kept much of their capacity off line.
This week's summit meeting between President Obama and President Xi Jinping of China is an important opportunity for the leaders of the world's two largest economies to chart a smoother path and avoid the destructive conflicts that have historically afflicted relations between rising and established powers.
The general consensus dating back to the seminal report of a "reovirus-like agent" as the major cause of "winter" gastroenteritis in hospitalized infants and young children has been that symptomatic rotavirus infections predominantly afflict children between 6 and 24 months of age (14).
