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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 opisthorchiasis and death from opisthorchiasis.
Meaning of opisthorchiasis
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, opisthorchiasis means a symptomatic clinical infection of the biliary system by the trematodes Opisthorchis felineus or Opisthorchis viverrini. This infection is characterised by loss of appetite, diarrhoea, or a sense of abdominal pressure.
(3)          While opisthorchiasis attracts ICD‑10‑AM code B66.0, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of opisthorchiasis 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 opisthorchiasis
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, opisthorchiasis, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's opisthorchiasis.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.