Sentence examples for illness afflicts from inspiring English sources

Mental illness afflicts 12 49% of people worldwide (1).

Although an inexplicable illness afflicting millions of Americans is a cause for concern, the C.D.C. spokesman urged people to remain calm.

So when President Vicente Fox, left, visited South America this month to increase trade ties with Brazil and Argentina, some Mexicans disapproved, fearing that their country would become more likely to contract the economic illness afflicting its southern neighbors.

So when President Vicente Fox visited South America this month to increase trade ties with Brazil and Argentina, some Mexicans disapproved, fearing that their country would become more likely to contract the economic illness afflicting its southern neighbors.

Barcelona is Madrid's rival in everything, and, although Barça's defensive problems mount with injuries and illness afflicting Éric Abidal, Carles Puyol, Gabriel Milito and now Adriano, it maintains an eight-point lead in La Liga with five matches to play.

For instance, Indian officials have been tight-lipped about the illness afflicting Sonia Gandhi, uncrowned queen of the country's ruling party; and the cloud of unknowing contributes to government paralysis in Delhi.As for Mr Chávez, having largely misgoverned his country for the past dozen years, he is running for yet another six years as president in an election due on October 7th.

A somewhat different illness afflicted Ireland and Spain, where low interest rates helped to inflate a property bubble that, when it burst, ruined banks, indebted households and the public finances.Whether the EU will in future detect such problems sooner and enforce policy changes to avoid them remains to be seen.

As an umbrella term, anxiety is the mental illness afflicting the most Americans today.

ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT00675818 Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common complication of critical illness, afflicting up to two-thirds of patients admitted to the ICU [ 1].

Its narrative is split between a realistic depiction of post-war Scotland – from the viewpoint of art-school student Duncan Thaw – and the city of Unthank, a sunless, heartless vision of a future Glasgow where an epidemic of uncanny illnesses afflicts the citizenry – including some people's slow transformation into dragons.

The neurological illnesses afflicting the babies could have been caused by bacteria or by toxins, like lead or mercury.