The phrase "afflicts every" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing something that causes suffering or distress to all individuals or groups involved.
Example: "The disease afflicts every member of the community, leaving them in a state of despair."
Alternatives: "affects all" or "troubles everyone".
This problem afflicts every part of the world – including the UK.
On one level, why should we expect support for Israel to evade the toxic partisanship that afflicts every other issue?
Notwithstanding his cultivated gift for dialogue, Mr. Grellong's inexperience tells in the serious bloat that afflicts every scene.
Taken together, these two out-of-character performances speak to a condition that afflicts every pitcher, even one of Santana's accomplishment.
It is Mamie, though, who reminds us viscerally of the Harrison that was and of the attrition that informs and afflicts every life in Mr. Foote's work.
While physical and sexual violence against women is unfortunately something that afflicts every society, the high levels to which it is acceptable in India are sometimes unfathomable.
It wasn't possible to be comprehensive: we are composed of multitudes of parts, and scores of ailments afflict every one of them.
These problems afflict every corner of Colombia by virtue of the simple fact that the central government has never really governed much of this country, a land of towering mountains, jungles and wide-open plains twice the size of France.
You know you are in the rosy glow of transition time when a new presidential team hits Washington and starts boasting about how it will not permit the sort of bitter infighting that has afflicted every modern administration.
Malaria is a major health and economic problem for Myanmar, where 300,000 people are afflicted every year.
A diagnostic code, and more research funding, are desperately needed to help not only existing sufferers but the new victims being afflicted every day all around the globe.
