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Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) Publications


2016

Moro PL, Cragan J, Tepper N, Zheteyeva Y, Museru O, Lewis P, Broder K. Enhanced surveillance of tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid, and acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccines in pregnancy in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), 2011-2015. Vaccine. 2016 Apr 29;34(20):2349-53.

Moro PL, Chen RT. Obstetrical and neonatal case definitions for immunization safety data. Vaccine. 2016 Aug 20. pii: S0264-410X(16)30698-3. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2016.08.026. [Epub ahead of print].

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2015

Baker MA, Kaelber DC, Bar-Shain DS, Moro PL, Zambarano B, Mazza M, et al. Advanced clinical decision support for vaccine adverse event detection and reporting. Clin Infect Dis. 2015 Sep 15;61(6):864-70. Epub 2015 Jun 9.
 

Chen RT, Shimabukuro TT, Martin DB, Zuber PL, Weibel DM, Sturkenboom M. Enhancing vaccine safety capacity globally: A lifecycle perspective. Vaccine. Epub 2015 Sep 30.
 

Datwani H, Moro PL, Harrington T, Broder K. Chorioamnionitis following vaccination in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. Vaccine. 2015 Jun 17;33(27):3110-3. Epub 2015 May 11.
 

Haber P, Parashar UD, Haber M, DeStefano F. Intussusception after monovalent rotavirus vaccine—United States, Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), 2008–2014. Vaccine. 2015 Sep 11;33(38):4873-7. Epub 2015 Aug 11.
 

Hibbs BF, Moro PL, Lewis P, Miller ER, Shimabukuro T. Vaccination errors reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, United States, 2000–2013. Vaccine. 2015 Jun 22;33(28):3171-8. Epub 2015 May 14.
 

Iqbal S, Shi J, Seib K, Lewis P, Moro PL, Woo EJ, et al.  Preparation for global introduction of inactivated poliovirus vaccine: Safety evidence from the US Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, 2000-2012. Lancet Infect Dis. 2015 Oct;15(10):1175-82. Epub 2015 Aug 16.
 

Miller ER, Moro PL, Cano M, Shimabukuro T. Deaths following vaccination: What does the evidence show? Vaccine. 2015 Jun 26;33(29):3288-92. Epub 2015 May 23.
 

Miller ER, Shimabukuro T, Hibbs B, Moro P, Broder K, Vellozzi C. Vaccine safety resources for nurses. Am J Nurs. 2015 Aug; 115(8):55-58.
 

Moro PL, Arana J, Cano M, Lewis P, Shimabukuro TT. Deaths reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, United States, 1997-2013. Clin Infect Dis. 2015 Sep 15;61(6):980-7. Epub 2015 May 28.
 

Moro PL, Jankosky C, Menschik D, Lewis P, Duffy J, Stewart B, et al.  Adverse events following Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccines in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, 1990-2013. J Pediatr. 2015 Apr;166(4):992-7. Epub 2015 Jan 15.
 

Moro PL, McNeil MM, Sukumaran L, Broder KR. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s public health response to monitoring Tdap safety in pregnant women in the United States. Hum Vaccin Immunother. Epub 2015 Sep 17.
 

Moro PL, Zheteyeva Y, Lewis P, Shi J, Yue X, Museru OI, et al. Safety of quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine (Gardasil®) in pregnancy: Adverse events among non-manufacturer reports in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, 2006-2013. Vaccine. 2015 Jan 15;33(4):519-22.
 

Rabe IB, Miller ER., Fischer M, Hills SL. Adverse events following vaccination with an inactivated, Vero cell culture-derived Japanese encephalitis vaccine in the United States, 2009-2012. Vaccine. 2015 Jan 29;33(5):708-12. Epub 2014 Dec 9.
 

Shimabukuro TT, Nguyen M, Martin D, DeStefano F. Safety monitoring in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). Vaccine. 2015 Aug 26;33(36):4398-405. Epub 2015 Jul 22.

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2014

Briere EC, Rubin L, Moro PL, Cohn A, Clark T, Messonnier N. Prevention and control of haemophilus influenzae type b disease: Recommendations of the advisory committee on immunization practices (ACIP). MMWR. 2014 Feb 28;63(RR-01):1-14.
 

Haber P, Moro PL, McNeil MM, Lewis P, Woo EJ, Hughes H, et al. Post-licensure surveillance of trivalent live attenuated influenza vaccine in adults, United States, Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), July 2005-June 2013. Vaccine. 2014 Nov 12;32(48):6499-504.
 

Haber P, Moro PL, McNeil MM, Lewis P, Woo EJ, Hughes H, et al. Post-licensure surveillance of trivalent live attenuated influenza vaccine in children aged 2-18 years, Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), United States, July 2005-June 2012. J Ped Infect Dis. Epub 2014 May 7.
 

Hibbs BF, Miller ER, Shimabukuro T. Notes from the field: Rotavirus vaccine administration errors-United States, 2006-2013. MMWR. 2014;63(4):81.
 

McNeil MM, Cano M, Miller ER, Petersen BW, Engler RJ, Bryant-Genevier MG. Ischemic cardiac events and other adverse events following ACAM2000® smallpox vaccine in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. Vaccine. 2014 Aug 20;32(37):4758-65.
 

Moro PL, Museru OI, Niu M, Lewis P, Broder K. Reports to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System after hepatitis A and hepatitis AB vaccines in pregnant women. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2014 Jun;210(6):561.e1-6.

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2013

Haber P, Patel M, Pan Y, Baggs J, Haber M, Museru O, et al. Intussusception after Rotavirus Vaccines—United States, Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), 2006-2012. Pediatrics. 2013 Jun;131(6):1042-9.
 

Moro PL, Harrington T, Shimabukuro T, Cano M, Museru OI, Menschik D, et al. Adverse events after Fluzone® Intradermal vaccine reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), 2011-2013. Vaccine. 2013 Oct 9;31(43):4984-7.
 

Zheteyeva Y, Moro PL, Yue X, Broder K. Safety of meningococcal polysaccharide-protein conjugate vaccine in pregnancy: A review of the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2013 Jun;208(6):478.e1-6.

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2012

Broder KR, Martin DB, Vellozzi C. In the heat of a signal: Responding to a vaccine safety signal for febrile seizures after 2010–11 influenza vaccine in young children, United StatesVaccine. 2012;30(11):2032-2034.
 

Leroy Z, Broder K, Menschik D, Shimabukuro T, Martin D.  Febrile seizures after 2010–2011 influenza vaccine in young children, United States: A vaccine safety signal from the vaccine adverse event reporting system. Vaccine. 2012;30(11):2020-3.
 

Moro PL, Tepper NK, Grohskopf LA, Vellozzi C, Broder K. Safety of seasonal influenza and influenza A (H1N1) 2009 monovalent vaccines in pregnancy. Expert Rev Vaccines. 2012 Aug;11(8):911-21.
 

Moro PL, Arana J, Cano M, Menschik D, Yue Lewis P, Haber P, et al. Postlicensure safety surveillance for high-dose trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, 1 July 2010–31 December 2010. Clin Infect Dis.2012; 54(11):1608-14. Epub 2012 Mar 22.
 

Zheteyeva YA, Moro PL, Tepper NK, Rasmussen SA, Barash FE, Revzina NV, et al. Adverse event reports after tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid, and acellular pertussis vaccines in pregnant women. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2012 Jul; 207(1):59.e1-7. Epub 2012 May 14.

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2011

Haber P, Iskander J, Walton K, Campbell SR, Kohl KS.  Internet-Based Reporting to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System: A More Timely and Complete Way for Providers to Support Vaccine SafetyPediatrics. 2011; 127 Suppl 1: S39-44. Epub 2011 Apr 18.
 

Moro PL, Broder K, Zheteyeva Y, Revzina N, Tepper N, Kissin D, et al. Adverse events following administration to pregnant women of influenza A (H1N1) 2009 monovalent vaccine reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2011; 205(5):473.e1-9. Epub 2011 Jun 21.
 

Moro PL, Yue X, Lewis P, Haber P, Broder K. Adverse events after tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid and acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccine administered to adults 65 years of age and older reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), 2005-2010. Vaccine. 2011;29(50):9404-8. Epub 2011 Sep 13.
 

Moro PL, Broder K, Zheteyeva Y, Walton K, Rohan P, Sutherland A, et al. Adverse events in pregnant women following administration of trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine and live attenuated influenza vaccine in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, 1990-2009. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2011 Feb; 204(2):146.e1-7. Epub 2010 Oct 20.
 

Slade BA, Gee J, Broder KR, Vellozzi C. Comment on the contribution by Souayah et al., “Guillain-Barré syndrome after Gardasil vaccination: data from Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System 2006-2009”. Vaccine. 2011; 29(5):865-6. Epub 2010 Nov 25.
 

Woo EJ, Wise RP, Menschik D, Shadomy SV, Iskander J, Beeler J, et al. Thrombocytopenia after vaccination: Case reports to the US Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, 1990-2008. Vaccine. 2011;29(6):1319-23. Epub 2010 Nov 30.

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2010

Huang WT, Chang S, Miller ER, Woo EJ, Hoffmaster AR, Gee JE, et al. Safety assessment of recalled Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) conjugate vaccines–United States, 2007-2008. Pharmacoepidemiol and Drug Saf. 2010;19(3):306-10.
 

Lindsey NP, Staples JE, Jones JF, Sejvar JJ, Griggs A, Iskander J, et al. Adverse event reports following Japanese encephalitis vaccination in the United States, 1999-2009.Vaccine. 2010;29(1):58-64. Epub 2010 Nov 4.
 

McNeil MM, Broder KR, Vellozzi C, DeStefano F. Risk of fatal adverse events after H1N1 influenza vaccine: Limitations of passive surveillance data. Clin Infect Dis. 2010;51(7):871-2; author reply 872-3.
 

Muhammad RD, Haber P, Broder KR, Leroy Z, Ball R, Braun MM, et al. Adverse events following trivalent inactivated influenza vaccination in children: Analysis of the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2010 Oct 29. [Epub ahead of print]
 

Vellozzi C, Broder KR, Haber P, Guh A, Nguyen M, Cano M, Lewis P, McNeil MM, Bryant M, Singleton J, Martin D, DeStefano F.  Adverse events following influenza A (H1N1) 2009 monovalent vaccines reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, United States, October 1, 2009-January 31, 2010. Vaccine. 2010;28(45):7248-55. Epub 2010 Sep 16.
 

Wong C, Krashin J, Rue-Cover A, Saraiya M, Unger E, Calugar A, et al. Invasive and in situ cervical cancer reported to the vaccine adverse event reporting system (VAERS). J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2010 Mar;19(3):365-70.
 

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2009

Haber P, Sejvar J, Mikaeloff Y, DeStefano F. Vaccines and Guillain-Barré syndrome. Drug Saf.2009; 32(4):309-23.
 

Hua W, Izurieta HS, Slade B, Belay ED, Haber P, Tiernan R, et al. Kawasaki disease after vaccination: Reports to the vaccine adverse event reporting system 1990-2007Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2009;28(11):943-7.
 

Niu MT, Ball R, Woo EJ, Burwen DR, Knippen M, Braun MM; et al. Adverse events after anthrax vaccination reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), 1990-2007. Vaccine. 2009;27(2):290-7. Epub 2008 Nov 6.
 

Patel MM, Haber P, Baggs J, Zuber P, Bines JE, Parashar UD. Intussusception and rotavirus vaccination: A review of the available evidence. Expert Rev Vaccines. 2009;8(11):1555-64.
 

Slade BA, Leidel L, Vellozzi C, Woo EJ, Hua W, Sutherland A, et al. Postlicensure safety surveillance for quadrivalent human papillomavirus recombinant vaccine. JAMA. 2009;302(7):750-7.
 

Vellozzi C, Burwen DR, Dobardzic A, Ball R, Walton K, Haber P. Safety of trivalent inactivated influenza vaccines in adults: Background for pandemic influenza vaccine safety monitoring. Vaccine. 2009 Mar 26; 27(15):2114-20. Epub 2009 Feb 6.

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2008

Asatryan A, Pool V, Chen RT, Kohl KS, Davis RL, Iskander JK; The VAERS team. Live attenuated measles and mumps viral strain-containing vaccines and hearing loss: Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), United States, 1990–2003Vaccine. 2008;26(9):1166-72. Epub 2008 Jan 22.
 

Chaves SS, Haber P, Walton K, Wise RP, Izurieta HS, Schmid DS, et al. Safety of varicella vaccine after licensure in the United States: Experience from reports to the vaccine adverse event reporting system, 1995-2005. J Infect Dis. 2008;197 Suppl 2:S170-7.
 

Haber P, Patel M, Izurieta HS, Baggs J, Gargiullo P, Weintraub E, et al. Postlicensure monitoring of intussusception after RotaTeq vaccination in the United States, February 1, 2006, to September 25, 2007. Pediatrics. 2008;121(6):1206-12.
 

Lindsey NP, Schroeder BA, Miller ER, Braun MM, Hinckley AF, Marano N, et al. Adverse event reports following yellow fever vaccinationVaccine. 2008;26(48):6077-82. Epub 2008 Sep 20.
 

McMahon AW, Iskander JK, Haber P, Braun MM, Ball R. Inactivated influenza vaccine (IIV) in children <2 years of age: Examination of selected adverse events reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) after thimerosal-free or thimerosal-containing vaccine. Vaccine. 2008;26(3):427-9. Epub 2007 Nov 29.
 

Sutherland A, Izurieta H, Ball R, Braun MM, Miller ER, Broder KR, et al. Syncope after vaccination–United States, January 2005-July 2007MMWR. 2008 May 2;57(17):457-60.

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2007

Belongia E, Izurieta H, Braun MM, Ball R, Haber P, Baggs J, et al. Postmarketing monitoring of intussusception after RotaTeq vaccination–United States, February 1, 2006-February 15, 2007MMWR. 2007 Mar 16;56(10):218-22.
 

Haber P, Slade B, Iskander J. Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) after vaccination reported to the United States Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) in 2004 [Letter]. Vaccine. 2007;25(48):8101. Epub 2007 Oct 1.
 

Woo EJ, Ball R, Landa R, Zimmerman AW, Braun MM; VAERS Working Group. Developmental regression and autism reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. Autism.2007; 11(4):301-10.

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2006

CDC. Update: Guillain-Barré syndrome among recipients of Menactra meningococcal conjugate vaccine–United States, October 2005-February 2006. MMWR. 2006 Apr 7;55(13):364-6.
 

DiMiceli L, Pool V, Kelso JM, Shadomy SV, Iskander J; VAERS Team. Vaccination of yeast sensitive individuals: Review of safety data in the US vaccine adverse event reporting system (VAERS). Vaccine. 2006; 24(6):703-7. Epub 2005 Aug 9.
 

Iskander J, Pool V, Zhou W, English-Bullard R; VAERS Team. Data mining in the US using the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. Drug Saf. 2006;29(5):375-84.
 

Miller ER, Woo EJ. Time to prevent injuries from postimmunization syncope. Nursing. 2006; 36(12 Pt.1):20.
 

Varricchio F, Reed J; VAERS Working Group. Follow-up study of medication errors reported to the vaccine adverse event reporting system (VAERS)South Med J. 2006 May;99(5):486-9.
 

Vellozzi C, Mitchell T, Miller E, Casey CG, Eidex RB, Hayes EB. Yellow fever vaccine-associated viscerotropic disease (YEL-AVD) and corticosteroid therapy: Eleven United States cases, 1996-2004Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2006 Aug;75(2):333-6.
 

Woo EJ, Ball R, Braun M, Clark T, Rosenstein Messonnier N, Wharton M, et al. Update: Guillain-Barré syndrome among recipients of Menactra meningococcal conjugate vaccine—United States, June 2005–September 2006MMWR. 2006 Oct 20;55(41):1120-4.
 

Woo EJ, Miller NB, Ball R; VAERS Working Group. Adverse events after hepatitis A B combination vaccineVaccine. 2006;24(14):2685-91. Epub 2005 Nov 9.

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2005

Izurieta HS, Haber P, Wise RP, Iskander J, Pratt D, Mink C, et al. Adverse events reported following live, cold-adapted, intranasal influenza vaccineJAMA. 2005;294(21):2720-5. Erratum in: JAMA. 2005 Dec 28;294(24):3092.
 

McMahon AW, Iskander J, Haber P, Chang S, Woo EJ, Braun MM, etc. Adverse events after inactivated influenza vaccination among children less than 2 years of age: Analysis of reports from the vaccine adverse event reporting system, 1990-2003Pediatrics. 2005;115(2):453-60.

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2004

Begier EM, Burwen DR, Haber P, Ball R; Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System Working Group. Postmarketing safety surveillance for typhoid fever vaccines from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, July 1990 through June 2002. Clin Infect Dis. 2004;38(6):771-9. Epub 2004 Feb 26.
 

Begier EM, Langford CA, Sneller MC, Wise RP, Ball R; VAERS Working Group. Polyarteritis nodosa reports to the vaccine adverse event reporting system (VAERS): Implications for assessment of suspected vaccine-provoked vasculitisJ Rheumatol. 2004;31(11):2181-8.
 

Haber P, DeStefano F, Angulo FJ, Iskander J, Shadomy SV, Weintraub E, et al. Guillain-Barré syndrome following influenza vaccination.  JAMA. 2004; 292(20):2478-81.
 

Haber P, Chen RT, Zanardi LR, Mootrey GT, English R, Braun MM; VAERS Working Group. An analysis of rotavirus vaccine reports to the vaccine adverse event reporting system: More than intussusception alone? Pediatrics. 2004;113(4):e353-9.
 

Iskander JK, Miller ER, Chen RT. The role of the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting system (VAERS) in monitoring vaccine safety. Pediatr Ann. 2004;33(9):599-606.
 

Varricchio F, Iskander J, Destefano F, Ball R, Pless R, Braun MM, et al. Understanding vaccine safety information from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting SystemPediatr Infect Dis J. 2004 Apr;23(4):287-94.
 

Wise RP, Iskander J, Pratt RD, Campbell S, Ball R, Pless RP, et al. Postlicensure safety surveillance for 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccineJAMA. 2004;292(14):1702-10.
 

Zhou W, Pool V, DeStefano F, Iskander JK, Haber P, Chen RT; VAERS Working Group. A potential signal of Bell’s palsy after parenteral inactivated influenza vaccines: Reports to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)–United States, 1991-2001.Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2004;13(8):505-10.

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2003

Lloyd JC, Haber P, Mootrey GT, Braun MM, Rhodes PH, Chen RT. Adverse event reporting rates following tetanus-diphtheria and tetanus toxoid vaccinations: Data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), 1991-1997Vaccine. 2003;21(25-26):3746-50.

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2002

Lathrop SL, Ball R, Haber P, Mootrey GT, Braun MM, Shadomy SV, et al. Adverse event reports following vaccination for Lyme disease: December 1998-July 2000. Vaccine. 2002;20(11-12):1603-8.

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2001

Verstraeten T, Baughman AL, Cadwell B, Zanardi L, Haber P, Chen RT; Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System Team. Enhancing vaccine safety surveillance: A capture-recapture analysis of intussusception after rotavirus vaccinationAm J Epidemiol. 2001 Dec 1;154(11):1006-12.
 

Zanardi LR, Haber P, Mootrey GT, Niu MT, Wharton M. Intussusception among recipients of rotavirus vaccine: Reports to the vaccine adverse event reporting systemPediatrics. 2001;107(6):E97.
 

Zhou W, Pool V, Iskander JK, English-Bullard R, Ball R, Wise RP, et al. Surveillance for safety after immunization: Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)–United States, 1991-2001. MMWR Surveill Summ.2003 Jan 24; 52(1):1-24. Erratum in: MMWR. 2003 Feb 14; 52(06):113. 

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2000

Braun MM, Mootrey GT, Salive ME, Chen RT, Ellenberg SS, VAERS Working Group. Infant immunization with acellular pertussis vaccines in the United States: Assessment of the first two years’ data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)Pediatrics. 2000;106(4):E51.
 

Takahashi H, Pool V, Tsai TF, Chen RT. Adverse events after Japanese Encephalitis vaccination: Review of post-marketing surveillance data from Japan and the United States. Vaccine. 2000;18(26):2963-9.
 

Wise RP, Salive ME, Braun MM, Mootrey GT, Seward JF, Rider LG, et al. Post licensure safety surveillance for varicella vaccine. JAMA. 2000;284:1271-9.

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