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.
Face oedema appears in 4,112 VAERS reports across all vaccines. Of these, 6 reports also mentioned death and 352 involved hospitalization. The severity rate (deaths + hospitalizations as a percentage of reports) is 8.7%. The top vaccines associated with this symptom are MMR, Hepatitis B, Flu (Trivalent). Remember: VAERS reports show temporal association, not causation.
Face oedema has been reported 4,112 times in VAERS from 1990 to 2026.
Of these reports, 6 were associated with death (0.15%) and 352 involved hospitalization.
The overall serious outcome rate (death or hospitalization) for reports mentioning Face oedema is 8.7%.
This data comes from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), jointly managed by CDC and FDA.