Report #2858928

Received Sep 15, 2025

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Overview

Sex: Unknown
Age: 3 yrs
State: NV
Recovered: Unknown
Vaccinated: Aug 21, 2025
Onset: Aug 21, 2025
Days to onset: 0
Hospital days: —

Vaccines (1)

Type	Name	Manufacturer	Dose	Lot	Route / Site
VARCEL	VARICELLA (VARIVAX)	MERCK & CO. INC.	UNK	X021282	—

Symptoms (2)

Expired product administeredNo adverse event

Symptom narrative

No additional AE/No PQC; expired VARIVAX (exp: 08/20/25) administered today; This spontaneous report was received from medical assistant and refers to a 3-year-old patient of unknown gender. The patient's medical history was not reported. The patient's concurrent conditions were not reported. Concomitant therapies were not reported. On 21-Aug-2025, the patient was vaccinated with expired Varicella Virus Vaccine Live (Oka-Merck) (VARIVAX REFRIGERATOR STABLE), Solution for injection, lot #X021282, expiration date: 20-Aug-2025 (dosage, route of administration and anatomical location were not provided) as prophylaxis (Expired product administered). The vaccine was reconstituted with sterile diluent (Hollister-Stier STERILE DILUENT) (lot#, expiration date, dosage, route of administration and anatomical location were all not provided). There was no additional adverse event (AE) or product quality issue (PQC) . Confirmed patient not symptomatic. Confirmed no temperature excursions (TEs). Supported by memo. No other information available at this time.

Other medications

sterile diluent