The evidence does not support a finding that the Veteran's claimed disorder is due to herbicide exposure or any other event or incident of his period of active service.
The deciding factor: The weight of the evidence demonstrates that the Veteran's claimed disorder, variously diagnosed as polyarthritis, arthralgia, poly-arthralgias, and fibromyalgia variant, is not due to herbicide exposure or any other event or incident of his period of active service.
- Claimed conditions
- aching joints, polyarthritis, arthralgia, poly-arthralgias, fibromyalgia variant
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 29, 2011
- Citation
- 1128413
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