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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 chickenpox and death from chickenpox.
Meaning of chickenpox
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, chickenpox:
(a)          means an infection caused by the varicella-zoster virus,
usually manifesting with a vesicular eruption involving the skin or mucous membranes; and
(b)          excludes:
(i)            herpes simplex;
(ii)         shingles or postherpetic neuralgia;
(iii)       Mpox; and
(iv)        smallpox.
Note: Chickenpox can also involve the lungs (pneumonia), the brain (encephalitis or meningitis) and other organs, and can produce disseminated intravascular coagulation.
(3)          While chickenpox attracts ICD‑10‑AM code B01, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of chickenpox 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 chickenpox
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, chickenpox, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's chickenpox.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.