The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for hepatitis A as there is no current diagnosis of the condition and the evidence does not establish a link between the claimed in-service disease and any current disability.
The deciding factor: There is no current diagnosis of Hepatitis A, and the evidence does not support a nexus to service.
- Claimed conditions
- Hepatitis A
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 12, 2019
- Citation
- 19170870
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What this means for you
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