rev rick Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 If you had clap in V.N. are you due anything ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HadIt.com Elder jbasser Posted May 2, 2011 HadIt.com Elder Share Posted May 2, 2011 Just getting it in service doesn't get you anything, There is a VA rule that states even though you had an issue in service, you must have residuals today. If you do have some residual issues from it, then you can be service connected for the secondaries. The VA loves to fight these types of claims. J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonP Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 2 cents, a cigar, and what you deserved...we were warned......they said you would and you did.......we used our condoms on our other guns and for leech duty. LOL Ron Prince Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berta Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 A widow member here fought a claim like this for many years until she won DIC. She claimed her husband's syphilis in service caused his death due to heart disease. John is correct as to the residuals of any STS. She obtained strong IMOs from a doctor from India who was more familiar with syphilis than I guess many USA doctors are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HadIt.com Elder Hoppy Posted May 2, 2011 HadIt.com Elder Share Posted May 2, 2011 (edited) I remember reading a case for herpes that was very interesting. A VA compensation and pension examiner decided that he was judge, jury and executioner. The veteran was diagnosed with herpes while on active duty. The C&P examiner did some math and determined that 80% of all American males tested positive for the herpes virus by the age of 18. He then wrote an opinion that as a result, the pure math determined that it was less likely than not that the veterans herpes was incurred in the military. The C&P examine went on to advise that the veterans herpes should not be service connected. It had to go all the way to the BVA before they determined that relying solely on statistics without supporting evidence that the condition actually did exist prior to service was not sufficient to rebut the presumption of soundness. The veteran was service connected for herpes by the BVA. Edited May 2, 2011 by Hoppy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharon Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 38 cfr 3.301 c 1 (Authority: 38 U.S.C. 501) (1) Venereal disease. The residuals of venereal disease are not to be considered the result of willful misconduct. Consideration of service connection for residuals of venereal disease as having been incurred in service requires that the initial infection must have occurred during active service. Increase in service of manifestations of venereal disease will usually be held due to natural progress unless the facts of record indicate the increase in manifestations was precipitated by trauma or by the conditions of the veteran’s service, in which event service connection may be established by aggravation. Medical principles pertaining to the incubation period and its relation to the course of the disease; i.e., initial or acute manifestation, or period and course of secondary and late residuals manifested, will be considered when time of incurrence of venereal disease prior to or after entry into service is at issue. In the issue of service connection, whether the veteran complied with service regulations and directives for reporting the disease and undergoing treatment is immaterial after November 14, 1972, and the service department characterization of acquisition of the disease as willful misconduct or as not in line of duty will not govern. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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