Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus was first identified in Saudi Arabia in late 2012 (Zaki, van Boheemen, Bestebroer, Osterhaus, & Fouchier, 2012). Since that time, there are reports of human cases, not only in Saudi Arabia but also in other countries in the Arabian Gulf area, such as UAE, Qatar and Oman. As of now, there are 2,468 MERS-CoV human cases reported from 27 countries around the world (WHO, 2019) with a case fatality rate of 34%(WHO, 2019). Dromedary camels are the main animal reservoir for MERS-CoV (Hemida et al., 2014). Camel to human transmission was reported in many cases (Azhar, El-Kafrawy, et al., 2014; Azhar, Hashem, et al., 2014). Dromedary camels shed the virus, especially in their nasal secretions (Hemida et al., 2014). However, there is a discrepancy about the shedding of the virus in the body secretions of dromedary camels such as urine and milk. MERS-CoV has not been isolated from urine, faeces nor milk of dromedaries, and recent studies showed that no viral nucleic acids were detected in the urine of positive MERS-CoV camels (Farag et al., 2019). It was shown that MERS-CoV can still be detected and survived in the camel milk for a prolonged time under experimental conditions (van Doremalen, Bushmaker, Karesh, & Munster, 2014). One study reported the detection of MERS-CoV-RNAs in the milk of some positive animals. This highlights the potential of a possible shedding of the virus in the milk of the infected animals (Reusken et al., 2014). However, this may be hampered by the milk collection technique and the possibility of faecal contamination to the camel udder
