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Report #2828990

Received Mar 3, 2025

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Overview

Sex
Male
Age
18 yrs
State
MN
Recovered
Unknown
Vaccinated
Feb 25, 2025
Onset
Feb 25, 2025
Days to onset
0
Hospital days
—

Vaccines (1)

TypeNameManufacturerDoseLotRoute / Site
HEPHEP B (ENGERIX-B)GLAXOSMITHKLINE BIOLOGICALSUNKEM9E4—

Symptoms (1)

Expired product administered

Symptom narrative

Expired dose administered; This non-serious case was reported by a nurse via call center representative and described the occurrence of expired vaccine used in a 18-year-old male patient who received HBV (Engerix B) (batch number EM9E4, expiry date 17-FEB-2025) for prophylaxis. On 25-FEB-2025, the patient received Engerix B. On 25-FEB-2025, an unknown time after receiving Engerix B, the patient experienced expired vaccine used (Verbatim: Expired dose administered). The outcome of the expired vaccine used was not applicable. This report is made by GSK without prejudice and does not imply any admission or liability for the incident or its consequences. Additional Information: GSK receipt date: 25-FEB-2025 Other HCP reported that they had a Hep B vaccine with a case of, that they had arrived at clinic on December 15th, 2024 and they did had a vaccine, a Hep B vaccine that was given but expired on February 17th, 2025. Reporter did gave it on the day of reporting and so, Nurse Manager wanted us to report to see if it was like definitely expired, reporter did not knew if there was a window past the expiration date if it might still be good? and also they just wanted to clarify too, because they did receive this vaccine like just over two months ago, reporter stated that it was kind of unusual that expired that soon, and that was another thing that they wanted to check because they had another vaccines that expires on August of 2026, they usually get them with the same time. Patient received the expired vaccine which led to expired vaccine used.