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.
Headache Reports for Influenza, Seasonal (Fluvirin)
#8 most reported symptom for this vaccine
Headache and Influenza, Seasonal (Fluvirin)
Headache has been reported 8,484 times in association with Influenza, Seasonal (Fluvirin) vaccination in VAERS. This represents 7.1% of all 119,695 reports for this vaccine.
Among these reports, 32 mentioned death (0.38%) and 716 involved hospitalization (8.4%).
Headache is the #8 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.
What This Means
Seeing 8,484 reports of Headache 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), Headache appears in only 7.1% of reports.
The mortality rate among these reports is very low at 0.38%, suggesting most cases are non-fatal.
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Data Source
This data comes from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), jointly managed by CDC and FDA.