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Report #2873386

Received Nov 18, 2025

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Overview

Sex
Unknown
Age
Age unknown
State
NH
Recovered
Unknown
Vaccinated
Nov 3, 2025
Onset
Nov 3, 2025
Days to onset
0
Hospital days
—

Vaccines (2)

TypeNameManufacturerDoseLotRoute / Site
VARCELVARICELLA (VARIVAX)MERCK & CO. INC.UNKZ003882—
VARCELVARICELLA (VARIVAX)MERCK & CO. INC.UNK——

Symptoms (2)

No adverse eventProduct storage error

Symptom narrative

No additional AE; patient received improperly stored VARIVAX.; This spontaneous report was received from a Nurse on 10-Nov-2025 and refers to a patient of unknown age and gender. The patient's medical history, concurrent conditions and concomitant therapies were not reported. On 03-Nov-2025, the patient was vaccinated with an improperly stored dose of Varicella Virus Vaccine Live (Oka-Merck) (VARIVAX REFRIGERATOR STABLE), (lot #Z003882, expiration date: 03-Feb-2027) 1 dosage form reported as a Single dose (dose number and dose were unspecified) for prophylaxis. The vaccine was reconstituted with sterile diluent (Hollister-Stier STERILE DILUENT) (lot#, route, dose, dose number were unspecified) for an unknown indication for prophylaxis. The administered dose of the vaccine experienced a temperature excursion of -12.9 centigrade for 10 hours, 40 minutes and 5.4 Fahrenheit for 5 minutes. No previous temperature excursion mentioned. There was no adverse effect reported.