The phrase "afflicts mostly" is not entirely correct in standard written English.
It can be used when discussing the primary impact or prevalence of an affliction or issue, but it may sound awkward or unclear.
Example: "The disease afflicts mostly the elderly population, leading to increased health concerns."
Alternatives: "primarily affects" or "mostly impacts".
The report aimed to challenge the notion that homelessness afflicts mostly older men.
Matthew Morton, a Chapin Hall research fellow, said he aims to dispel the notion that homelessness afflicts mostly older men.
Because AIDS spreads through sexual activity, contaminated needles among drug injectors and from mothers to children, it still afflicts mostly young adults.
One afflicts mostly American citizens, disproportionately those of African American and Latino backgrounds from areas of concentrated poverty, but also many white and middle class citizens who fall into the hands of police and prosecutors.
Luckily, the early closing afflicts mostly stores: the restaurants, cafes and bars still stay open into the wee hours, and it was at these establishments that Tracy Jo and I began to find our missing New Orleanians.
At the meeting yesterday, Wong reported that his team has also examined the saliva from groups of 10 people with either type II diabetes, breast cancer, or Sjogren's syndrome, an autoimmune disease that afflicts mostly women and destroys the salivary gland and pancreas.
The story of the last few decades is the generalization of the income instability that once afflicted mostly the less educated and disadvantaged.
But the disease, once thought to afflict mostly boxers, has been found in recent years in deceased athletes who have played soccer, rugby and even baseball.
However, rather than strengthening the Obama economy — by forging new trade deals, passing actual tax reform (not massive cuts for the rich and corporations) and attending to the knotty problems that afflict mostly rural regions that have not benefited from globalization — Trump is booby-trapping the economy.
It has been known to afflict mostly gay men and evangelicals, but for very different reasons.
It is characterized by intense snoring, and it mostly afflicts men.
