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"One thing we found out when we were raising livestock was that there is always a % of a group of animals on which a vaccine will not take--for whatever reason."

And, conversely, veterinarian schools are now looking seriously at overvaccination of pets as a source of rampant increases in diabetes, cancers, arthritis, and other potentially auto-immune related diseases. This doesn't have relevancy to humans at this point. The studies, which my veteranarian printed out for me, have to do with repeated annual vaccinations for rabies, distemper, parvo, etc. diseases which may be unnecessary - possibly harmful - at such frequent intervals. Many jurisdictions now allow blood titers to be taken for vaccine levels and will waive vaccinations if the titer result is certified as adequate to prevent disease by the vet. The titers are about as costly, sometimes less so, than the vacinations, so I go this route with my pets.

I presume you say this has no relevancy to humans at this point because humans are not being studied, right?

Otherwise, I would believe there would be tremendous relevancy seeing as how so much in medicine is developed using animals....even the study of AIDS was modeled on studies of retro viruses in sheep....can't think of the retro virus right now that had enough 'similarities' or whatever for the scientists to work with.

You can probably add cancer to the list of veterinary side effects. My kitty died of cancer a few years back. It began as a lump on the back of his neck near the shoulder blade. I used to get it cut out, but it returned more quickly each time and eventually entered his brain and I had to euathanize him. Anyway - my vet says cases like this are really occurring frequently and he (and other vets) think it's linked to the shots. The cancer is showing up in the same spot on many animals - exactly the spot where the shots are often given.