Here’s a classic jet gun win with nexus letters to go with it. What is notable is that the doctor writing the nexus is also the transplant surgeon and uses the trnasplant as prima facie evidence that the infection is 30-40 + years old. This places it squarely in the time frame when the Vet got his jetgun innoculations. This, Veterans, is the ticket to a good letter in my book. Metavir scoring , Childs-Pugh or any other that shows the disease is extremely advanced is an indicator no one argues with any more. One simply cannot “hurry up” the infection by drinking or doing drugs post service.. Once you get it, it is a linear progression of approximately 10 years per stage from 0-4. Thus, 40 years (2002) is smack dab at the start of this fellow’s induction in 1966. Okay, to be terribly anal, its thirty six years.  This is excellent evidence for any of you who are post transplant.

http://www.va.gov/vetapp11/Files5/1142926.txt