The Board denied the appellant's application to reopen her claim for service connection for the cause of the veteran's death, finding that no new and material evidence had been received.
The deciding factor: The provided evidence did not relate to an unestablished fact and did not raise a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim for service connection for the cause of the veteran's death.
- Claimed conditions
- typhoid fever, helminthiasis
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 24, 2006
- Citation
- 0636504
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Denied
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