Anti-Serum to Virus?

[Peter William Krug]

grenard at herpmed.com wrote:

: I believe that antibodies can be harvested from the sera of infected
: individuals, concentrated and then administered to victims to fight
: their infection. The source/host  must be a survivor/carrier of the
: virus (hence the search for the original host) which would have a high titer 
: antibodies to the agent in its blood.  As an aside I think

Wouldn't the antibodies be anti-idiotypic? For example, If the monkey's 
ab to the virus were injected into a human, wouldn't the human's immune 
system mount a response against these foriegn ab's? Are humans that close 
to any monkey to be able to accept the ab?  

Just trying to be difficult,

Peter
pkrug at emory.edu