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.
Arthralgia appears in 87,171 VAERS reports across all vaccines. Of these, 191 reports also mentioned death and 3,806 involved hospitalization. The severity rate (deaths + hospitalizations as a percentage of reports) is 4.6%. The top vaccines associated with this symptom are COVID-19, Shingles (Zostavax), Flu (Trivalent). Remember: VAERS reports show temporal association, not causation.
Arthralgia has been reported 87,171 times in VAERS from 1990 to 2026.
Of these reports, 191 were associated with death (0.22%) and 3,806 involved hospitalization.
The overall serious outcome rate (death or hospitalization) for reports mentioning Arthralgia is 4.6%.
This data comes from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), jointly managed by CDC and FDA.