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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 smallpox and death from smallpox.
Meaning of smallpox
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, smallpox means a clinical illness caused by infection with the variola virus, a member of the Orthopoxvirus genus, which has been confirmed by laboratory testing.  Symptoms and signs may include an acute onset of fever, prostration, headache, body aches and a vesicular or pustular rash.
(3)          While smallpox attracts ICD‑10‑AM code B03, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of smallpox 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), Ninth Edition, effective date of 1 July 2015, copyrighted by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, ISBN 978‑1‑76007‑020‑5.
Death from smallpox
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, smallpox, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's smallpox.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.