In the past, emerging zoonoses have been triggered by changes in the interface between humans and animals. An example is the Q-fever outbreak in the Netherlands in 2009, where intensive goat farming in the vicinity of populated areas resulted in widespread transmission of the disease within the community [8]. Progressive changes have taken place in the farming of camels in SA in recent years, with a large increase in camel population and camel farms, in the proximity of the cities. While a Washington post editorial last week [9], pointed-out that ‘after all, camels are not sitting in hospital waiting rooms’ to support the fact that the recent hospital clusters in SA are likely to result from failure of the infection control procedures, camels are becoming more ‘urbanised’, as periurban camel farming is developing in SA [10].