Sentence examples for exclusively afflicts from inspiring English sources

Cervical cancer has been represented as a sex-induced cancer in Hong Kong [ 38], and is often portrayed as a disease that exclusively afflicts sexually active women.

He added that the problems of water and sanitation are "intrinsically linked" and almost exclusively afflict the developing world.

One of those diseases is myotubular myopathy, a degenerative muscular condition that afflicts almost exclusively males and kills one in every 50,000 newborns by the time they reach age two.

Renal medullary cancer is a rare, usually fatal primary kidney tumor that afflicts almost exclusively young blacks with sickle cell trait or disease [ 27].

Here he dwells exclusively on the problems afflicting the Price family.

The Manchester Guardian's reviewer complained that "so prolonged a voyage in an exclusively emotional and sexual sea afflicts a male reader at least with a sense of surfeit".

Women are not the only ones afflicted.

On Monday, Colin L. Powell, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff during the war in the Persian Gulf, talked almost exclusively about domestic affairs, including the ills afflicting urban areas, the need to pay more attention to the education of the nation's children and the problems of minorities.

Patients ask me, "Do you take care of men too?" I may be partly to blame for the confusion: in the years since the revolutionary 1985 report on women's health from the United States Public Health Service, I — along with many of my colleagues — have tried to atone for the fact that for so long the majority of diseases that afflicted both genders were studied exclusively in men.

While memory loss is not exclusively a women's issue, it certainly seems to afflict women more.

Why does it afflict only Jews?