The Board has decided that the veteran's service connection claim for cough, fever and night sweats is not granted due to it being a known clinical illness rather than an undiagnosed illness. The case is remanded for further development including obtaining additional evidence and providing the veteran with a VA examination.
The deciding factor: The Board found insufficient evidence to grant service connection based on the presumptive provisions of the Agent PACT Act or Camp Lejeune, as the disability was not due to an undiagnosed illness. The case is remanded for further development including obtaining additional evidence and providing the veteran with a VA examination.
- Claimed conditions
- cough, fever, night sweats
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 16, 2003
- Citation
- 0327835
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for the Veteran's left basilar atelectasis, which is also claimed as a cough. The effective date of this grant is August 9, 2023.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeal of the claims for service connection for anxiety and night sweats is dismissed. The claim for service connection for sleep apnea is remanded.
- Partly granted
The Board granted an initial 10 percent disability rating for the Veteran's service-connected cough and remanded the issue of entitlement to service connection for hyperacusis/periodic inner ear pain.
- Partly granted
The Board denied service connection for respiratory conditions, bilateral upper extremity conditions, and carpal tunnel syndrome of the upper extremities but granted service connection for night sweats as they are proximately due to a service-connected condition.
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