The Board has granted service connection for the Veteran's bilateral eye conditions, including blurred vision in the right eye and ocular toxoplasmosis of the left eye, finding that these conditions are etiologically related to his service.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence supports a finding that the Veteran’s current bilateral eye conditions are related to experimental injections he received at Edgewood Arsenal during service.
- Claimed conditions
- blurred vision in the right eye, ocular toxoplasmosis of the left eye
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- November 26, 2019
- Citation
- 19189159
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,432 · Granted: 29% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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