The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for peptic ulcer, malnutrition, residuals of a shell fragment wound of the right back, malaria, dysentery, influenza, and paralysis. The evidence received since the previous denials was not new and material to reopen any of these claims.
The deciding factor: The submitted evidence did not provide new and material evidence to support reopening any of the veteran's service connection claims for peptic ulcer, malnutrition, residuals of a shell fragment wound of the right back, malaria, dysentery, influenza, or paralysis.
- Claimed conditions
- peptic ulcer, malnutrition, residuals of a shell fragment wound of the right back, malaria, dysentery
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 14, 2004
- Citation
- 0412639
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