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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 acute infectious mononucleosis and death from acute infectious mononucleosis.
Meaning of acute infectious mononucleosis
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, acute infectious mononucleosis means an illness caused by infection with the
Epstein-Barr virus, accompanied by laboratory evidence of recently acquired Epstein-Barr virus infection.
            Note: Typical clinical features of acute infectious mononucleosis include pharyngitis, lymphadenopathy, splenomegaly, fever, fatigue, myalgia and atypical lymphocytosis.
(3)          While acute infectious mononucleosis attracts ICD‑10‑AM code B27.0, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of acute infectious mononucleosis 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 acute infectious mononucleosis
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, acute infectious mononucleosis, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's acute infectious mononucleosis.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.