The Board has determined that there is no current evidence of residuals of spinal meningitis and the veteran's headaches are not related to service. Therefore, the claim for service connection for residuals of spinal meningitis is denied.
The deciding factor: There is no competent medical evidence linking the veteran's current headache disability to his in-service meningitis or any other condition attributable to service.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of spinal meningitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 22, 2006
- Citation
- 0618300
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