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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 hookworm disease and death from hookworm disease.
Meaning of hookworm disease
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, hookworm disease means an illness due to an infection with Necator americanus, Ancylostoma duodenale, Ancylostoma ceylanicum or Ancylostoma caninum hookworms.  Symptoms and signs may arise at variable times following infection and include skin lesions, dry cough, wheezing, nausea and diarrhoea.  Anaemia may also arise in the course of the illness.
(3)          While hookworm disease attracts ICD‑10‑AM code B76, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of hookworm disease 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 hookworm disease
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, hookworm disease, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's hookworm disease.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.