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- Dictionary.
                                  systemic infectious disease as specified means a parasitic or bacterial infectious disease that causes systemic symptoms such as fever, and includes infection with Plasmodium falciparum and typhoid fever.
                                  terminal event means the proximate or ultimate cause of death and includes the following:
         (a)           pneumonia;
         (b)           respiratory failure;
         (c)           cardiac arrest;
         (d)           circulatory failure; or
         (e)           cessation of brain function.
                                  VEA means the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986.