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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 shingles and postherpetic neuralgia and death from shingles and postherpetic neuralgia.
Meaning of shingles and postherpetic neuralgia
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, shingles and postherpetic neuralgia means a symptomatic reactivation of a dormant varicella-zoster virus infection, usually manifesting with neuritic pain and a vesicular eruption involving the skin or mucous membranes in a dermatomal pattern;
Note 1: Shingles is also known as herpes zoster.
Note 2: The dormant infection involves the peripheral nervous system ganglia. It can also involve the central nervous system, the eye and other organs.
(3)          While shingles and postherpetic neuralgia attracts ICD‑10‑AM code B02, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of shingles and postherpetic neuralgia 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 shingles and postherpetic neuralgia
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, shingles and postherpetic neuralgia, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's shingles and postherpetic neuralgia.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.