The Veteran's claim for service connection for a disorder manifested by infections, including as secondary to in-service exposure to Agent Orange or diabetes mellitus, is denied.
The deciding factor: There is no current diagnosis of an infection or disorder manifested by infections found in the medical records.
- Claimed conditions
- infections
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 3, 2012
- Citation
- 1234424
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