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7               Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
(1)          This Statement of Principles is about human T-cell lymphotropic virus type-1 infection and death from human T-cell lymphotropic virus type‑1 infection.
Meaning of human T-cell lymphotropic virus type-1 infection
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, human T-cell lymphotropic virus type-1 infection means an infection that is caused by the retrovirus human T-cell lymphotropic virus type-1 (HTLV-1).
(3)          While human T-cell lymphotropic virus type-1 infection attracts ICD‑10‑AM code Z22.6, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of human T-cell lymphotropic virus type-1 infection is that given in subsection (2).
(4)          For subsection (3), a reference to an ICD-10-AM code is a reference to the code assigned to a particular kind of injury or disease in The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification (ICD-10-AM), Tenth Edition, effective date of 1 July 2017, copyrighted by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, ISBN 978-1-76007-296-4.
Death from human T-cell lymphotropic virus type-1 infection
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, human T-cell lymphotropic virus type-1 infection, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's human T-cell lymphotropic virus type-1 infection.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.