Sentence examples for mainly afflicted from inspiring English sources

While floods have mainly afflicted the north, much of southern China has suffered the worst drought in decades, forcing the government to import and burn vast stocks of coal to supplement dwindling hydroelectric power.

So far, the consequences of a warming planet have mainly afflicted the poor, but the West Nile outbreak reveals how health consequences of a warming planet strike the rich also.

The SOD1 activities in the areas mainly afflicted by ALS, the spinal cord ventral horns and the precentral gyrus, were intermediate among gray matter areas.

Further, we find that excess mortality mainly afflicted patients with poor glycemic control.

Entropy × mitosis × time = breakdown, which is why cancer mainly afflicts elders.

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia, or C.L.L., is a common blood cancer, mainly afflicting older people but sometimes occurring in the young.

Ms. Hanger, who has lupus-related disorders, offers a look at a rheumatological autoimmune disease that attacks connective tissues, ebbs and flows, and mainly afflicts women.

Histoplasma capsulatum is the agent of histoplasmosis, a deep mycosis mainly afflicting immunocompromised patients.

Medimmune's Synagis, a monoclonal antibody therapy for respiratory syncytial virus (which mainly afflicts premature babies), caught Schroer's eye early last year after successful late-stage trials.

If effective in humans, the vaccine could help control a dangerous form of pneumonia that mainly afflicts hospitalized patients and individuals with cystic fibrosis.

Malignant melanoma mainly afflicts people with white skin (the Caucasian population).