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38 U.S.C. § 1133 — Presumptions relating to certain diseases
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**(a)** For the purposes of [section 1131 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title38-section1131&num=0&edition=prelim), and subject to the provisions of subsections (b) and (c) of this section, any veteran who served for six months or more and contracts a tropical disease or a resultant disorder or disease originating because of therapy administered in connection with a tropical disease, or as a preventative thereof, shall be deemed to have incurred such disability in the active military, naval, air, or space service when it is shown to exist within one year after separation from active service, or at a time when standard and accepted treatises indicate that the incubation period thereof commenced during active service.
**(b)** Service-connection shall not be granted pursuant to subsection (a), in any case where the disease or disorder is shown by clear and unmistakable evidence to have had its inception before or after active military, naval, air, or space service.
**(c)** Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the granting of service-connection for any disease or disorder otherwise shown by sound judgment to have been incurred in or aggravated by active military, naval, air, or space service.
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**(a)** For the purposes of [section 1131 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title38-section1131&num=0&edition=prelim), and subject to the provisions of subsections (b) and (c) of this section, any veteran who served for six months or more and contracts a tropical disease or a resultant disorder or disease originating because of therapy administered in connection with a tropical disease, or as a preventative thereof, shall be deemed to have incurred such disability in the active military, naval, air, or space service when it is shown to exist within one year after separation from active service, or at a time when standard and accepted treatises indicate that the incubation period thereof commenced during active service.
**(b)** Service-connection shall not be granted pursuant to subsection (a), in any case where the disease or disorder is shown by clear and unmistakable evidence to have had its inception before or after active military, naval, air, or space service.
**(c)** Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the granting of service-connection for any disease or disorder otherwise shown by sound judgment to have been incurred in or aggravated by active military, naval, air, or space service.
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For disability resulting from personal injury suffered or disease contracted in line of duty, or for aggravation of a preexisting injury suffered or disease contracted in line of duty, in the active military, naval, air, or space service, during other than a period of war, the United States will pay to any veteran thus disabled and who was discharged or released under conditions other than dishonorable from the period of service in which said injury or disease was incurred, or preexisting injury or disease was aggravated, compensation as provided in this subchapter, but no compensation shall be paid if the disability is a result of the veteran’s own willful misconduct or abuse of alcohol or drugs.
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TITLE 38—VETERANS’ BENEFITS
§ 1134
will pay to any veteran thus disabled and who
was discharged or released under conditions
other than dishonorable from the period of serv-
ice in which said injury or disease was incurred,
or preexisting injury or disease was aggravated,
compensation as provided in this subchapter,
but no compensation shall be paid if the dis-
ability is a result of the veteran’s own willful
misconduct or abuse of alcohol or drugs.
(Pub. L. 85–857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1122, § 331;
Pub. L. 101–508, title VIII, § 8052(a)(3), Nov. 5,
1990, 104 Stat. 1388–351; renumbered § 1131, Pub. L.
102–83, § 5(a), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 406; Pub. L.
105–178, title VIII, § 8202(b), June 9, 1998, 112 Stat.
492; Pub. L. 105–206, title IX, § 9014(a), July 22,
1998, 112 Stat. 865; Pub. L. 116–283, div. A, title
IX, § 926(a)(10), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 3830.)
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
2021—Pub. L. 116–283 substituted ‘‘air, or space serv-
ice’’ for ‘‘or air service’’.
1998—Pub. L. 105–178, which directed the substitution
of ‘‘, abuse of alcohol or drugs, or use of tobacco prod-
ucts’’ for ‘‘or abuse of alcohol or drugs’’ before the pe-
riod at end, was amended generally by Pub. L. 105–206,
which provided that the amendments made by that sec-
tion as originally enacted shall be treated for all pur-
poses as not having been made. See Effective Date of
1998 Amendment note below.
1991—Pub. L. 102–83 renumbered section 331 of this
title as this section.
1990—Pub. L. 101–508 substituted ‘‘a result of the vet-
eran’s own willful misconduct or abuse of alcohol or
drugs’’ for ‘‘the result of the veteran’s own willful mis-
conduct’’.
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EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1998 AMENDMENT
Title IX of Pub. L. 105–206 effectiv
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