afflicts

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Huntington’s disease afflicts about 40,000 patients in the U.S., and there are no current treatments that slow progression.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026

But if Ireland’s radically asymmetrical relationship with the U.S. is distinctive, the crisis it represents is global and afflicts many other small and medium-size nations.

From Salon • Mar. 16, 2025

In her early 40s, Lane was diagnosed with post-polio syndrome, which afflicts between 25% and 40% of childhood polio survivors.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2024

This language disorder afflicts more than 1 in 300 Americans each year, including Wendy Williams and Bruce Willis.

From Science Daily • May 28, 2024

Now the elms are stricken with a disease that afflicts them throughout their range, a disease so serious that many experts believe all efforts to save the elms will in the end be futile.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson