Deaths Reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, United States, 1997-2013.

Moro, Pedro L.; Araña, Jorge E.; Cano, María Dolores; Lewis, Paige; Shimabukuro, Tom T.

doi:10.1093/cid/civ423

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Deaths Reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, United States, 1997-2013.

Author(s): Pedro L Moro ¹ , Jorge Arana ¹ , Maria Cano ¹ , Paige Lewis ¹ , Tom T Shimabukuro ¹

Publication date (Electronic): Sep 15 2015

Journal: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)

Keywords: death, epidemiology, surveillance, vaccine safety, vaccines

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Abstract

Vaccines are among the safest medical products in use today. Hundreds of millions of vaccinations are administered in the United States each year. Serious adverse reactions are uncommon. However, temporally associated deaths can occur following vaccination. Our aim was to characterize main causes of death among reports submitted to the US Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), a spontaneous vaccine safety surveillance system.