IMAT 2025 question 4: Reading skills

READING SKILLSIMAT 2025 Q41 / 1

In 1955, Dr. Vincent Zigas discovered that kuru, a deadly inflammation of the brain widespread among the indigenous people of New Guinea, was caused by a practice linked to a local funeral rite: eating the brains of deceased relatives. Another encephalopathy that resembles kuru is Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which is not only found in New Guinea. Creutzfeldt-Jakob is rare and a difficult-to-diagnose problem, as it is sometimes confused with diseases like Alzheimer's. Both kuru and Creutzfeldt-Jakob are caused by an infectious protein, the prion, present in the tissues of the affected individuals even after death. G. Maga, Batteri spazzini e virus che curano, Zanichelli Only one of the following statements is coherent with the excerpt:

Kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and Alzheimer's are diseases whose diagnoses can be confused with each other

Alzheimer's is recognizable as a development of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Vincent Zigas discovered a cure for the negative effects of prions

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease is widespread in New Guinea as a result of the practice of consuming the brains of deceased relatives

the prion is a bacterium which develops after death inside tissue proteins

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IMAT 2025 · Question 4