affliction

• ``You have not told me that my affliction was a visitation from God,'' she added; ``that it was discipline and well for me I had it I don't believe it was from God,'' I said. —  The Story of a Pioneer
• The distraction of the children, who thought they saw both their parents expiring together, and now lying dead before them, would have melted the hardest heart; but they soon perceived their father recover, whom I helped to remove into another room, with a resolution to accompany him till the first pangs of his affliction were abated. —  Isaac Bickerstaff
• They have discovered that the children who went on to suffer from the affliction were also exposed to viral infections caused by members of the Coxsackie B enteroviruses —  Softpedia News - Global
• This affliction is actually caused be the bacteria that looks like a coiled and is transmitted by the taster of a tick. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
• Kelso said she didn't know if any of the eight adults diagnosed with E. coli had recovered from the affliction, which is most commonly cured simply by waiting for the body to fight off the infection without antibiotics. —  TimesArgus.com: Sports

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