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.
Eye pruritus appears in 3,190 VAERS reports across all vaccines. Of these, 2 reports also mentioned death and 59 involved hospitalization. The severity rate (deaths + hospitalizations as a percentage of reports) is 1.9%. The top vaccines associated with this symptom are COVID-19, Flu (Trivalent), Flu (Seasonal). Remember: VAERS reports show temporal association, not causation.
Eye pruritus has been reported 3,190 times in VAERS from 1990 to 2026.
Of these reports, 2 were associated with death (0.06%) and 59 involved hospitalization.
The overall serious outcome rate (death or hospitalization) for reports mentioning Eye pruritus is 1.9%.
This data comes from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), jointly managed by CDC and FDA.