Here is a quick guide to common afflictions, with safer recommendations for managing them.

It was there that he contracted malaria, a common affliction in the area.

To be sure, even when diagnostic errors are taken into account, depression is still considered to be a more common affliction among women.

This is a common affliction popularly known as "being spoilt for choice".

Computer viruses have become a common affliction for personal computer users in the last five years.

Shoulder injuries appear to be the most common affliction on the Tour.

"Well, that's a common affliction for men of all ages."

He has escaped cancer and heart disease and the other common afflictions of old age.

Only those burdened with a common affliction understand each other.

Cash sometimes looks as if he is burdened by his success, a common affliction nowadays among the young tennis players who rise to the top.