Important: VAERS reports alone cannot determine if a vaccine caused an adverse event. Reports may contain incomplete, inaccurate, or unverified information. Correlation does not equal causation.
#183 most reported symptom for this vaccine
Abdominal discomfort has been reported 425 times in association with Influenza, Seasonal (Fluvirin) vaccination in VAERS. This represents 0.4% of all 119,695 reports for this vaccine.
Among these reports, 5 mentioned death (1.18%) and 32 involved hospitalization (7.5%).
Abdominal discomfort is the #183 most frequently reported symptom for Influenza, Seasonal (Fluvirin) out of 3021 total symptoms.
Disclaimer: VAERS reports describe events that occurred after vaccination but do not establish that the vaccine caused the event. Many reported symptoms may be coincidental or related to underlying conditions.
Seeing 425 reports of Abdominal discomfort after Influenza, Seasonal (Fluvirin) vaccination may seem alarming, but context is critical. With 119,695 total reports for this vaccine (representing many millions of doses), Abdominal discomfort appears in only 0.4% of reports.
The mortality rate of 1.18% warrants monitoring, though VAERS deaths represent temporal associations, not confirmed causal links.
This data comes from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), jointly managed by CDC and FDA.