The Board has found new and material evidence to reopen the claim of service connection for flu-like symptoms as secondary to a service-connected delusional disorder, NOS and obsessive compulsive disorder with depression due to anxiety. The Veteran's flu-like symptoms are now considered part of his service-connected psychiatric disability.
The deciding factor: The additional evidence presented relates to an unestablished fact (the relationship between the Veteran's flu-like symptoms and his service-connected delusional disorder, NOS and obsessive compulsive disorder with depression due to anxiety) and raises a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- flu-like symptoms
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 17, 2009
- Citation
- 0930759
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