The Board has determined that the Veteran's HIV did not begin during his active service and is not otherwise etiologically related to any event, injury, or disease during his active military service. The Veteran's HIV was not caused by or aggravated by any service-connected disability.,The Board also found that the Veteran's rectal warts did not begin during his active service and are not otherwise etiologically related to any event, injury, or disease during his active military service; the Veteran's condition manifested by rectal warts was not caused by or aggravated by any service-connected disability.
The deciding factor: The evidence is against finding that the Veteran's HIV began during his active service and is etiologically related to an injury or event in service. The only medical opinion of record supporting the Veteran's theory is not stated in sufficiently definite language to warrant much probative value.,The April 2014 VA examiner opined that the current condition was less likely than not incurred in or caused by the in-service infection, explaining that after successful treatment during service, the Veteran had no outbreaks or symptoms until roughly 2011 and that the medical literature indicates that such infections are transient and cleared within two years.
- Claimed conditions
- Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Rectal Warts
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 26, 2018
- Citation
- 1825720
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