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.
#589 most reported symptom for this vaccine
Meningitis has been reported 63 times in association with Influenza, Seasonal (Fluvirin) vaccination in VAERS. This represents 0.1% of all 119,695 reports for this vaccine.
Among these reports, 7 mentioned death (11.11%) and 33 involved hospitalization (52.4%).
Meningitis is the #589 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 63 reports of Meningitis 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), Meningitis appears in only 0.1% of reports.
The 11.11% mortality rate among these reports is elevated, but this reflects the severity of the condition itself rather than vaccine causation.
This data comes from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), jointly managed by CDC and FDA.