The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for PTSD, bilateral foot rash, asbestosis, hepatitis, prostatitis, jungle rot/groin rash, and colon polyps. The claims were not reopened due to lack of new and material evidence.
The deciding factor: No new and material evidence was received to reopen the claims for PTSD and bilateral foot rash, and there is no competent medical evidence showing a relationship between these conditions and service or exposure to herbicides.
- Claimed conditions
- post-traumatic stress disorder, bilateral foot rash, asbestosis, hepatitis, prostatitis, jungle rot/groin rash, colon polyps
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 10, 2000
- Citation
- 0003489
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