Today, Rock Daily received news that throat attacks have felled both Morrissey (an infection possibly aggravated by the frigid temperatures inside David Letterman’s studio) and the Used (frontman Bert McCracken has a vocal cord node), resulting in cancelled tour dates. A similar ailment forced Brandon Flowers to cut a Killers show short in Colorado last month, but as of now nobody’s sued him for it — Rolling Stones fan Rosalie Druyan accused the band of fraud when Mick Jagger’s pipes required a break last fall. Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler underwent surgery for an unspecified throat ailment in March 2006, and everyone from Ted Leo and Kelly Clarkson to Usher and Axl Rose has suffered the effects of ill-timed laryngitis. But Spin Doctors frontman Chris Barron’s 1999 throat predicament may be the worst in rock history: He battled a rare vocal cord paralysis that left him nearly unable to speak. Are throat attacks becoming the new “exhaustion”?