Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for a new medical opinion to address whether the Veteran's Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease was related to his exposure to contaminated meat while serving in England.
The deciding factor: The previous medical opinion was found inadequate due to lack of confirmation of CJD diagnosis and failure to consider incubation period of the disease.
- Claimed conditions
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 15, 2025
- Citation
- A25088707
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