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9               Factors that must exist
At least one of the following factors must exist before it can be said that, on the balance of probabilities, aplastic anaemia or death from aplastic anaemia is connected with the circumstances of a person's relevant service:
(1)          being pregnant at the time of the clinical onset of aplastic anaemia;
(2)          being treated with a drug specified in the Schedule 2 - Drugs of this Instrument within the six months before the clinical onset of aplastic anaemia;
(3)          being treated with a drug which is associated in the individual with:
(a)          the development of aplastic anaemia within six months of drug therapy; and
(b)          the improvement of aplastic anaemia within six months of discontinuing or tapering drug therapy;
(4)          being exposed to benzene as specified on at least 45 days within the six months before the clinical onset of aplastic anaemia;
Note: being exposed to benzene as specified is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.
(5)          inhaling, ingesting or having cutaneous contact with an organophosphate insecticide on at least 45 days within the six months before the clinical onset of aplastic anaemia;
(6)          having acute hepatitis within the one year before the clinical onset of aplastic anaemia;
(7)          having a liver transplant within the three months before the clinical onset of aplastic anaemia;
(8)          having an autoimmune disease from the specified list of autoimmune diseases within the two years before the clinical onset of aplastic anaemia;
Note: specified list of autoimmune diseases is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.
(9)          having               chronic lymphocytic leukaemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma or T-cell large granular lymphocytic leukaemia within the six months before the clinical onset of aplastic anaemia;
(10)      having a thymoma or thymic carcinoma before the clinical onset of aplastic anaemia;
(11)      being pregnant at the time of the clinical worsening of aplastic anaemia;
(12)      inability to obtain appropriate clinical management for aplastic anaemia.