Table 3.

Confirmed cause of death among death reports after the administration of DTaP vaccines in VAERS

Cause of death*		No. (%)
Total		725
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome		350 (48.3)
Undetermined		98 (13.5)
Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes  Asphyxia or suffocation	49 (6.8)	70 (9.7)
Diseases of the respiratory system  Pneumonia	24 (3.3)	49 (6.8)
Diseases of the circulatory system		28 (3.9)
Certain infections and parasitic diseases  Sepsis or septicemia	20 (2.8)	29 (4.0)
Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities		26 (3.6)
Diseases of the Nervous system		26 (3.6)
Diseases of the digestive system  Intussusception	6 (0.8)	18 (2.5)
External causes of morbidity		10 (1.4)
Other†		21 (2.9)

^*Confirmed by review of death certificate, autopsy report, or medical record.

^†Other causes include: Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (8), complications of prematurity (5), certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (3), Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (3), neoplasms (2)