The Board has determined that new and material evidence has been received to reopen the Veteran's claims of entitlement to service connection for bilateral hearing loss disability and encephalomyelitis. Service connection is now granted for chronic bilateral sensorineural hearing loss disability, but not for encephalomyelitis.
The deciding factor: The Board found that new and material evidence had been received sufficient to reopen the Veteran's claims of service connection for bilateral hearing loss disability and encephalomyelitis. Service connection was granted for chronic bilateral sensorineural hearing loss disability due to a reasonable possibility of its etiology being related to inservice infectious mononucleosis, while encephalomyelitis remains denied as there is no evidence linking it to service.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral Hearing Loss Disability, Encephalomyelitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 15, 2009
- Citation
- 0939027
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