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or inner ear, involving the affected side, within the 30 days before the clinical worsening of sensorineural hearing loss;
            Note: specified list of bacterial infections is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.
(39)      having an infection with a virus from the specified list of viruses, within the 30 days before the clinical worsening of sensorineural hearing loss;
            Note: specified list of viruses is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.
(40)      having viral labyrinthitis of the affected ear within the 30 days before the clinical worsening of sensorineural hearing loss;
(41)      having meningitis or encephalitis within the six months before the clinical worsening of sensorineural hearing loss;
(42)      having neurosyphilis before the clinical worsening of sensorineural hearing loss;
(43)      having tuberculosis of the meninges, middle ear or inner ear of the affected side, before the clinical worsening of sensorineural hearing loss;
(44)      having leprosy before the clinical worsening of sensorineural hearing loss;
(45)      having Paget's disease of bone, affecting the petrous temporal bone or middle ear ossicles of the affected side, at the time of the clinical worsening of sensorineural hearing loss;
(46)      having a disease from the specified list of autoimmune diseases at the time of the clinical worsening of sensorineural hearing loss;
            Note: specified list of autoimmune diseases is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.
(47)      having multiple sclerosis at the time of the clinical worsening of sensorineural hearing loss;
(48)      having diabetes mellitus at the time of the clinical worsening of sensorineural hearing loss;
(49)      having a disease from the specified list of haematological diseases at the time of the clinical worsening of sensorineural hearing loss;
            Note: specified list of haematological diseases is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.
(50)      having a cerebrovascular accident within the three months before the clinical worsening of sensorineural hearing loss;
(51)      having a lesion interrupting the supply of blood to the cochlea of the affected ear at the time of the clinical worsening of sensorineural hearing loss;
Note: Examples of lesions interrupting the supply of blood to the cochlea include, but are not limited to, thrombosis, haemorrhage or vasospasm of the vertebro-basilar circulation, and intralabyrinthine haemorrhage or infarction.
(52)      having blunt trauma, penetrating trauma or surgery to the cochlea or auditory nerve of the affected side within the five years before the clinical worsening of sensorineural hearing loss;
Note: Examples of trauma include, but are not limited to, temporal bone fracture and basilar skull fracture.
(53)      having a benign or malignant neoplasm involving the affected auditory nerve or cochlea at the time of the clinical worsening of sensorineural hearing loss;
(54)      undergoing a course of therapeutic radiation for cancer, where the affected cochlea or auditory nerve was in