The phrase "as afflicted" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is suffering from a particular condition or situation.
Example: "The community came together to support those as afflicted by the recent disaster."
Alternatives: "as suffering" or "as impacted".
She also called for more clarity on the issue of doping, in light of recent suggestions that Russian swimming could be as afflicted as track and field.
Serious skin problems and rashes are common around here, but few people have been as afflicted as Mickey Van Dunk, 33, who spends most of his days either in bed or smoking cigarettes on his front porch, shying away from other people because his skin looks as if it is being eaten away.
It's not just aging baby boomers who are suffering from memory lapses and "where did I put my keys?" Teens and twenty-somethings are just as afflicted as they confront endless streams of data, information, music, entertainment and chitchat through their ever-expanding warehouse of digital tools.
Glasgow East is as afflicted by the rackety housing economics as the rest of Anglo-America.
There are three types: hyperactive, as afflicted the patients described above; hypoactive, often overlooked because, like depression, it is characterized by apathy and sluggishness; and a mixed state, with both hyperactive and hypoactive periods.
Indeed, these disproportionate responses might end up undermining the world's ability to deal with future pandemics, as afflicted countries will be less willing to disclose the extent of the threat they face.
To them war is a calamity and a social disaster, whether it is afflicted by one nation upon another or conceived of as afflicting humanity as a whole.
Swinton's impassioned open letter to her late friend, attacking the stagnation she sees as afflicting British cinema today, was the basis of Isaac Julien's documentary tribute Derek, earlier this year.
The 29-year-old poet's series of ballads, structured verses for Broken Britain, are similarly blunt in their assault on the national malaise, with media manipulation and the pursuit of easy fame among the other ills that Wright sees as afflicting our senses and sensibilities.
John Dugdale This time last year, as part of the Hay festival, Ian McEwan and I were sitting in Theatr Brycheiniog in Brecon watching the final rehearsals of For You, our opera about the perils of the abuse of power (by a composer/conductor) and obsessive love (as afflicts his housekeeper).
Conceived by her makers as a beacon of pluck in times of adversity, Kit is to her admirers both an antidote to "affluenza," that malaise that pop psychologists have identified as afflicting the contemporary rich, and a symbolic link to a fast-receding past.
