In Bogota, Colombia's capital, at least five American families connected to the United States embassy appear to have been afflicted with the Havana syndrome.
For those residents of large cities who are afflicted with a respiratory condition it becomes imperative for officials to clamp down on smog conditions.
A more famous example is Stephen Hawking, who was afflicted with a motor neuron disease, yet the bones in his face seem to have also changed drastically over the years.
It was drawn by an unskilful surgeon, in a mistake, from one of Glumdalclitch's men, who was afflicted with the tooth-ache, but it was as sound as any in his head.
That Raffles should be afflicted with illness, that he should have been led to Stone Court rather than elsewhere — Bulstrode's heart fluttered at the vision of probabilities which these events conjured up.
Physically, too, he was afflicted with asthma and dropsy; his manners were rough; his habits were gross; his clothes were dirty; his wig was singed; his linen was soiled; and he was the rudest of men.