A plague sweeps through Nuln that is fatal to those it afflicts. Blindness often afflicts pets, especially glaucoma in old dogs. Whirling disease afflicts juvenile fish (fingerlings and fry) and causes skeletal deformation and neurological damage. Dementia, which afflicts more than two million Japanese, is also a contributing factor. Genetic hydranencephaly afflicts both males and females in equal numbers. Supersymmetry close to the electroweak scale ameliorates the hierarchy problem that afflicts the Standard Model. This anxiety afflicts our moral self-affirmation. Most important though, before they might develop that self-imposed rigidity which afflicts so many. SCSFLS afflicts 5 out of every 100,000 people. The commitment of knowing who afflicts and receives the pain, bondage, torture, and/or humiliation. Eventually the owl dies, and the brightness that afflicts the biologist swallows her whole. A penile injury is a medical emergency that afflicts the penis.