The phrase "are particularly afflicted" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe individuals or groups who are experiencing significant suffering or hardship, often in a specific context such as health, social issues, or economic conditions.
Example: "The communities in the region are particularly afflicted by the ongoing drought, leading to severe food shortages."
Alternatives: "are especially suffering" or "are notably impacted".
In urban areas, it is often blocks of flats that are particularly afflicted because many of these buildings have a dedicated line from the ground floor to the nearest telephone exchange.
The Economist looked at every industry making up at least 1% of the economy, and found that since 2009 some have been immune from the productivity illness and others are particularly afflicted by it.Planes, trains and automobilesThe slump has had two separate phases.
Indigenous Australians comprise a significant subset of this population and are particularly afflicted by respiratory illness [ 15, 16].
NBA basketballers seem to be particularly afflicted.
France was particularly afflicted with reports of them in the 16th century, and there were many notable convictions and executions of loups-garous.
The 100m has been particularly afflicted by doping scandals, with eight of the fastest 14 men having served, or about to serve, drug suspensions.
With a comic touch, he goes on to make a serious point, elevating stories over situations: A friend of mine was particularly afflicted in this way.
The otherwise superlative Grand Theft Auto series is particularly afflicted with this mouse-coaxed-through-a-maze problem, and Bleszinski's only complaint about the G.T.A. games, which he admires, is that they can sometimes "feel like work".
They hide the fact that we have more than 23 million unemployed people in the EU as a whole, with younger people being particularly afflicted as their unemployment rate now exceeds 21%, as well as over 85 million people in poverty.
The judicial branch is particularly badly afflicted by this, where access to legal documents and data is dominated by an oligopoly of pay services both official (PACER) and private-sector (Westlaw, LexisNexis).
In a seminal article, Conrad and Barker point out how illness is socially constructed in three ways: First, some illnesses are particularly embedded with cultural meaning which shapes how society responds to those afflicted and influences the experience of the illness.
