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.
Malaria also has serious economic impacts in Africa, slowing economic growth and development and perpetuating the vicious cycle of poverty – mainly afflicting the poor who live in malaria-prone rural areas.
Malignant melanoma mainly afflicts people with white skin (the Caucasian population).
If effective in humans, the vaccine could help control a dangerous form of pneumonia that mainly afflicts hospitalized patients and individuals with cystic fibrosis.
Entropy × mitosis × time = breakdown, which is why cancer mainly afflicts elders.
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.
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.
It mainly afflicts middle-aged men and is a common cancer among Chinese, Greenland Eskimos, and North Africans [2].
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.
