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Report #2832625

Received Mar 21, 2025

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Overview

Sex
Unknown
Age
Age unknown
State
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Recovered
Unknown
Vaccinated
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Onset
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Days to onset
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Hospital days
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Vaccines (1)

TypeNameManufacturerDoseLotRoute / Site
VARZOSZOSTER (NO BRAND NAME)UNKNOWN MANUFACTURERUNKUNK—

Symptoms (2)

Herpes zosterVaccination failure

Symptom narrative

Suspected vaccination failure; Everyone I know who has had shingles, myself included, took the shingles shot except 1; This serious case was reported by a consumer via interactive digital media and described the occurrence of vaccination failure in an unspecified number of patients who received Herpes zoster (Shingles vaccine) for prophylaxis. On an unknown date, the patient received Shingles vaccine. On an unknown date, an unknown time after receiving Shingles vaccine, the patient experienced vaccination failure (Verbatim: Suspected vaccination failure) (serious criteria GSK medically significant) and shingles (Verbatim: Everyone I know who has had shingles, myself included, took the shingles shot except 1). The outcome of the vaccination failure and shingles were not reported. It was unknown if the reporter considered the vaccination failure and shingles to be related to Shingles vaccine. The company considered the vaccination failure to be unrelated to Shingles vaccine. It was unknown if the company considered the shingles to be related to Shingles vaccine. Additional Information: GSK Receipt Date: 14-MAR-2025 This case was reported by a reporter via interactive digital media. The reporter reported that everyone he/she knows who had shingles, his/herself included, took the Shingles shot except one who came down with shingles, in her 40s, shortly after the covid shot. The reporter mentioned that GlaxoSmithKline was telling him/her it was highly unlikely, that he/she had shingles or that he/she took the Shingles vaccine or that everyone he/she knows that got shingles had the vaccine. Further reporter asked what was so highly unlikely. The reporter also said his/her two friends also got shingles neither would lie about it and said that what was highly unlikely, apparently, was GSK understanding the and vaccine makers had been lying and had been believing and now could not see truth even when it walks up and shakes their hands. The reporter further said that it was much harder to see truth when they had believed a lie for so long. This case was considered as suspected vaccination failure since the details regarding completion of primary vaccine schedule, time to onset and laboratory confirmation of shingles were unknown at the time of reporting. This case had been linked with US2025AMR032387 and US2025AMR032406 reported by the same reporter.; Sender's Comments: Vaccination failure is a listed event which, due to the following criteria (insufficient information provided about the clinical description, details regarding completion of primary vaccination schedule, time to onset and laboratory confirmation of disease) is considered unrelated to GSK vaccine Shingles vaccine. US-GSK-US2025AMR032387:same reporter different patient US-GSK-US2025AMR032406:same reporter different patient