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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 malaria and death from malaria.
Meaning of malaria
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, malaria means an infection that is due to one of the human malaria species Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium vivax, Plasmodium ovale or Plasmodium malariae, or infection with Plasmodium knowlesi or other simian malaria species.
Note 1: Malaria typically presents with prostration, fever, chills, sweats, headaches, nausea, body aches and general malaise.  Physical findings may include elevated temperature, perspiration, weakness, enlarged spleen, jaundice, enlargement of the liver and anaemia.
Note 2: Malaria due to Plasmodium vivax or Plasmodium ovale may relapse due to reactivation of a dormant liver phase.
(3)          While malaria attracts ICD‑10‑AM code B50, B51, B52, B53 or B54, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of malaria 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 malaria
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, malaria, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's malaria.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.