Important: VAERS reports alone cannot determine if a vaccine caused an adverse event. Reports may contain incomplete, inaccurate, or unverified information. Correlation does not equal causation.
Abdominal pain upper appears in 16,081 VAERS reports across all vaccines. Of these, 141 reports also mentioned death and 1,526 involved hospitalization. The severity rate (deaths + hospitalizations as a percentage of reports) is 10.4%. The top vaccines associated with this symptom are COVID-19, Shingles (Zostavax), HPV (Gardasil). Remember: VAERS reports show temporal association, not causation.
Abdominal pain upper has been reported 16,081 times in VAERS from 1990 to 2026.
Of these reports, 141 were associated with death (0.88%) and 1,526 involved hospitalization.
The overall serious outcome rate (death or hospitalization) for reports mentioning Abdominal pain upper is 10.4%.
This data comes from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), jointly managed by CDC and FDA.