Report #2844043

Received Jun 5, 2025

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Overview

Sex: Male
Age: 5 yrs
State: TN
Recovered: Unknown
Vaccinated: Jun 2, 2025
Onset: Jun 2, 2025
Days to onset: 0
Hospital days: —

Vaccines (1)

Type	Name	Manufacturer	Dose	Lot	Route / Site
VARCEL	VARICELLA (VARIVAX)	MERCK & CO. INC.	1	X012268	—

Symptoms (1)

Expired product administered

Symptom narrative

No side effects or symptoms reported; HCP called to report a patient received an expired dose of VARIVAX. The product expired 04/30/2025 and was administered 06/02/2025. Caller verified the product has not had any temperature excursions. No side effects or symptoms reported. No addition; This spontaneous report was received from a medical assistant and refers to a 5-year-old male patient. The patient's medical history was not reported. The patient's concurrent conditions were not reported. Concomitant therapies were not reported. On 02-Jun-2025, the patient was vaccinated with an expired dose of Varicella Virus Vaccine Live (Oka-Merck) (VARIVAX), (lot #X012268, expiration date: 30-Apr-2025), dose number 1, 0.5 mL, that was reconstituted with sterile diluent for prophylaxis (expired product administered). No adverse event was reported.

Other medications

Sterile diluent