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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 clonorchiasis and death from clonorchiasis.
Meaning of clonorchiasis
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, clonorchiasis means a symptomatic clinical infection of the biliary system by the trematode Clonorchis sinensis.  This infection is characterised by loss of appetite, diarrhoea, or a sense of abdominal pressure.
(3)          While clonorchiasis attracts ICD‑10‑AM code B66.1, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of clonorchiasis 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 clonorchiasis
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, clonorchiasis, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's clonorchiasis.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.