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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 leptospirosis and death from leptospirosis.
Meaning of leptospirosis
         (2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, leptospirosis means an illness caused by infection with a bacterium from the genus Leptospira.
Note: Clinical manifestations of leptospirosis includes an initial flu-like illness with potential complications of renal failure and multi-organ disease.
(3)          While leptospirosis attracts ICD‑10‑AM code A27, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of leptospirosis 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), Tenth Edition, effective date of 1 July 2017, copyrighted by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, ISBN 978-1-76007-296-4.
Death from leptospirosis
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, leptospirosis, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's leptospirosis.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.