Exploring some of the anomalies with the fields AGE_YRS and NUMDAYS. In some rows, NUMDAYS converted to years, would actually be larger than the person’s age in years (AGE_YRS).
Anomalies of the field: VAERSDATA.NUMDAYS
Official VAERS documentation, the VAERS Data User Guide
Counts of reactions in the VAERS database, by Age Group
Counts of reactions in the VAERS database, according to Age
Counts of reactions in the VAERS database, according to Year
How to load the 2018 VAERS CSV Datasets into SQL Server
Literature article, described the occurrence of acute appendicitis in a 18-day-old male patient who received Hepatitis B vaccine. The reported cause of death was appendicitis.
Case in litigation. The ZOSTAVAX vaccine did not prevent shingles as intended, but rather caused the patient to contract a persistent strain of herpes zoster.
Literature article. Investigator considered that there was a reasonable possibility that the vaccination failure, neisseria meningitides meningitis and central nervous system infection may have been caused by Meningococcal ACWY-CRM vaccine