The Board finds that the veteran's claimed disabilities, including migraine headaches and fever and cold sweats, were not incurred or aggravated by active service and may not be presumed to have been incurred in service secondary to herbicide exposure.
The deciding factor: There is no medical evidence showing a nexus between the veteran's current conditions and his military service, including herbicide exposure.
- Claimed conditions
- migraine headaches, fever and cold sweats, blurred vision, lipoma of the right forearm, leukopenia, hepatitis B, lupus, dermatitis
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 14, 2006
- Citation
- 0617315
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