Sentence examples for afflicts up to from inspiring English sources

Tourette syndrome afflicts up to 1% of children, and a smaller percentage of adults.

Peripheral neuropathic pain is a unique form of chronic pain that afflicts up to 50% of persons with AIDS.

It emerged from his efforts to address phantom-limb pain, which afflicts up to ninety per cent of amputees.

Scientists have long been puzzled by pathological hoarding, which afflicts up to 40percentt of the seven million to eight million Americans with obsessive compulsive disorder.

Most rice plants die if they are completely submerged in floodwaters for more than a few days, and this problem afflicts up to 40% of rice crops in Asia and Africa during their rainy seasons.

Experts said the drug, called Arcalyst, potentially could be a significant advance in treatment of gout, an intensely painful joint inflammation that, according to the American College of Rheumatology, afflicts up to three million Americans.

First are those plagued by anxiety, depression, even post-traumatic stress disorder, which may afflict up to 58 percent of us, according to a recent American Cancer Society study.

Called "the germ of laziness" because it caused anemia and made victims lethargic and dull-witted, hookworm afflicted up to a third of Southerners.

But in fact these women were suffering from straightforward sexual frustration – and by the mid-19th century the problem had reached epidemic proportions, said to afflict up to 75% of the female population.

One leading expert has said that swine flu might eventually afflict up to 40% of the British population.Is there any scientific reason to think that Britain's people or health-care system makes it especially vulnerable to this global pandemic?

Sufferers with Non-24, which is estimated to afflict up to 95,000 totally-blind people in the U.S., say it's like having never-ending jet lag.