What can I claim secondary to acute infectious mononucleosis?
3 conditions in the Repatriation Medical Authority's Statements of Principles list acute infectious mononucleosis as a factor. If DVA has accepted your acute infectious mononucleosis, each of these has a documented pathway to a further claim.
At a glance
- Accepted conditionAcute infectious mononucleosis
- Conditions it may open3
- SourceRMA SoPs
- Chart Review$600 + GST
How a secondary claim works
Some Statement of Principles factors are not about service at all — they name another condition. Where DVA has already accepted your acute infectious mononucleosis, and another condition's SoP lists acute infectious mononucleosis as a factor, that part of the next claim is already established on your file. How a secondary claim works, in full →
Conditions that list acute infectious mononucleosis as a factor
Quoted from the instrument. A pathway existing is not the same as a claim succeeding — each factor carries thresholds your record has to satisfy.
Aplastic anaemia
RH No. 58 of 2020 · BoP No. 59 of 2020
Reasonable Hypothesis — factor (13): “having an infection with parvovirus B19 or acute infectious mononucleosis within the six months before the clinical onset of aplastic anaemia” [clinical onset]
This factor appears in the Reasonable Hypothesis instrument only, which applies to operational service.
Multiple sclerosis
RH No. 11 of 2020 · BoP No. 12 of 2020
Reasonable Hypothesis — factor (1): “having acute infectious mononucleosis before the clinical onset of multiple sclerosis” [clinical onset]
Balance of Probabilities — factor (1): “having acute infectious mononucleosis before the clinical onset of multiple sclerosis” [clinical onset]
Pure red cell aplasia
RH No. 60 of 2020 · BoP No. 61 of 2020
Reasonable Hypothesis — factor (11): “having an infection with parvovirus B19 or acute infectious mononucleosis within the six months before the clinical onset of pure red cell aplasia” [clinical onset]
This factor appears in the Reasonable Hypothesis instrument only, which applies to operational service.
Other accepted conditions that also open aplastic anaemia
If any of these is also on your file, it reaches some of the same conditions acute infectious mononucleosis does.
What DVA means by acute infectious mononucleosis
A claim is tested against the definition first. If the diagnosis on your file does not meet this wording, the factors below never get reached — so it is worth checking that what your doctor wrote matches what the instrument requires.
Acute infectious mononucleosis, for the purposes of the Statement of Principles, for the purposes of this Statement of Principles, acute infectious mononucleosis means an illness caused by infection with the Epstein-Barr virus, accompanied by laboratory evidence of recently acquired Epstein-Barr virus infection.
Aggravation-only factors. In this instrument, subsections 9(2) apply only to material contribution to, or aggravation of, acute infectious mononucleosis where it was already present before or during service. If service caused acute infectious mononucleosis outright, those factors are not available to you.
RH No. 17 of 2021 · BoP No. 18 of 2021 · 2 factors
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