The Board has determined that the veteran's claimed pulmonary tuberculosis was not incurred or aggravated during service and is not otherwise related to his military service. The claim for service connection is denied.
The deciding factor: There is no evidence of a current disability, nor any showing of continuity of symptomatology after service, which would support a finding of chronicity.
- Claimed conditions
- Pulmonary tuberculosis, Koch's pulmonary disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 3, 2006
- Citation
- 0631037
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