The Board has reopened the appellant's claim for service connection for the cause of the veteran's death due to new and material evidence submitted. The Board also found that coccidioidal meningitis was incurred in active military service, and therefore caused the veteran's death.
The deciding factor: New medical evidence provided by the appellant established a link between the veteran's exposure to coccidioidomycosis during his service in New Mexico and his subsequent diagnosis of coccidioidal meningitis.
- Claimed conditions
- Coccidioidal meningitis
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 20, 2006
- Citation
- 0635993
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Decisions by this judge: 1,293 · Granted: 17% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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