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.
Decreased appetite appears in 24,388 VAERS reports across all vaccines. Of these, 606 reports also mentioned death and 3,109 involved hospitalization. The severity rate (deaths + hospitalizations as a percentage of reports) is 15.2%. The top vaccines associated with this symptom are COVID19, VARZOS, PNC13. Remember: VAERS reports show temporal association, not causation.
Decreased appetite has been reported 24,388 times in VAERS from 1990 to 2026.
Of these reports, 606 were associated with death (2.48%) and 3,109 involved hospitalization.
The overall serious outcome rate (death or hospitalization) for reports mentioning Decreased appetite is 15.2%.
This data comes from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), jointly managed by CDC and FDA.