Sentence examples for first afflicted from inspiring English sources

Something like this has happened to enough prominent ballplayers – Chuck Knoblauch, Rick Ankiel – that it has a pseudo-medical name: Steve Blass Disease, after the pitcher first afflicted with it.

Advocates for Haitian victims of the deadly cholera epidemic that first afflicted their country three years ago said they were taking the extraordinary step on Wednesday of suing the United Nations, asserting that the organization's peacekeeping force in Haiti was responsible for introducing the disease through sewage contamination from its barracks.

The study focused on H3N2, a flu strain that first afflicted humans in 1968.

First, afflicted Asian countries were borrowing in foreign currency.

A shoplifting bust, diabetes, depression, a wife (his fifth) afflicted with Crohn's disease, a son who won't talk to him (and vice versa), and, finally, in recent months, full-bore homelessness — three weeks at the Bellevue men's shelter, a few nights in Central Park, then reassignment to a shelter in East Harlem.

At least one-third of afflicted infants have problems that could be treated with replacement valves, Dr. Hoerstrup said.

What doesn't change is the sense that each individual here, often just viewed for a few seconds, is afflicted by some unresolved dilemma.

Tamaulipas is the state with the highest number of disappearances in Mexico, with more than 5,300 missing persons cases currently on file — more than double those registered in Jalisco, Mexico's second-most afflicted state.

Researchers are still debating when this scourge first began afflicting us.

The ilium had "a large hole... caused by a blow from above".The near end of the first phalanx of the third toe was afflicted by an involucrum.

"In that sense, this is a victory, because for the very first time, people afflicted with a disease have had actual input into the formulation of the study," he said.