The Board has reopened the Veteran's claim of entitlement to service connection for amebiasis and other digestive system conditions, as new evidence was submitted that raises a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim. The case is remanded for further development.
The deciding factor: New evidence received since the final September 2005 rating decision raised a reasonable possibility of substantiating the Veteran's service connection claim by providing information about digestive symptoms in and after service.
- Claimed conditions
- Amebiasis, Chronic Colitis
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 29, 2017
- Citation
- 1724697
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