The phrase "modern scourge" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to refer to an issue that causes much distress or difficulty in the present day. For example: "Global warming is a modern scourge that scientists and politicians must urgently address."
This uniquely modern scourge has swept across America, where obesity rates are notoriously high.
"What we recognized, though, was we shut down an operation and another one springs up behind it almost instantaneously". Hence our modern scourge.
(This applies equally well to the modern scourge of pop-up dude‑food restaurants that are too hip to take reservations).
Even this sprawling Mogul fortress, which has survived for more than 350 years, feels vulnerable these days to that modern scourge, the terrorist.
Society is now obsessed with the cult of celebrity, and ethnic minorities have been denied much but not this modern scourge.
But examinations of the bodies of the Unangans from Kagamil Island and other pre-modern people indicate that, in fact, the modern scourge of heart disease is not at all new, and that people who exercised more than we do as a matter of necessity, and whose diet was free from modern temptations, also suffered striking levels of heart disease, according to the researchers.
So are other modern scourges like television and cars and music and language.
To be truly healthy, we have to eat the right varieties and pick those that are high in phytonutrients, the compounds with the potential to reduce the risk of several modern scourges.
That he may unwittingly be contributing to one of the great modern scourges does not disturb Mr. Kleimo, whose business creates companion Web sites for television infomercials, among other things.
Studies published within the past 15 years show that much of our produce is relatively low in phytonutrients, which are the compounds with the potential to reduce the risk of four of our modern scourges: cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and dementia.
A second response is to throw up one's hands, declare the situation too complicated to make a decision, and adopt an unhelpful interpretation of "emergent strategy," the modern strategy scourge.
