1.   In some sections of Sonora, the disease affects more than half of the wheat crop, Bowden said.

2.   It is not clear why the disease affects some people and not others.

3.   The disease affects cats but there is no risk to humans.

4.   The disease affects only a tiny fraction of the population.

5.   The disease affects the central nervous system.

6.   The fungal disease affects wheat, durum wheat and triticale, a hybrid of wheat and rye.

7.   This disease typically affects young cattle.

8.   In recent years, the tribe had been badly affected by diseases brought in by prospecting miners.

9.   And like many other lawmakers who have come to support the research because of friends and relatives affected by disease, Smith told a personal story.