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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 scrub typhus and death from scrub typhus.
Meaning of scrub typhus
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, scrub typhus means a clinical illness caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi, formerly known as Rickettsia tsutsugamushi.
            Note 1: Humans usually acquire the infection from the bite of an infected trombiculid mite (chigger).
            Note 2: Typical symptoms of scrub typhus include eschar at the bite site, high fever, headache, myalgia, cough, a rash and lymphadenopathy.
(3)          While scrub typhus attracts ICD‑10‑AM code A75.3, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of scrub typhus 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 scrub typhus
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, scrub typhus, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's scrub typhus.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.