According to reports, adding to the $6 million dollars pledged by the Queensland and New South Wales Governments, the Federal Government has promised another $6 million for hendra virus research.

Also, the Agriculture Minister, Joe Ludwig said: “The National Health and Medical Research Council was allocating up to $3 million for urgent research to better understand the virus in terms of its impact on human and animal health”.

However, an additional $3 million will be offered for research from the agriculture, innovation, and environment portfolios, as the funding move is said to be coming at a time when up to 15 infected horses have died, all over Queensland and New South Wales since the past month.

Over 57 people are presumed to have been exposed to the infected horses and are going through several tests, as veterinarian Dr David Lovell anticipates the funding will provide crucial answers to what causes hendra.

Moreover, Queensland Liberal National Party leader and former Brisbane Lord Mayor Campbell Newman, intends to scatter the problematic bat colonies with smoke bombs and helicopters, as well as proposed cutting down trees in which the creatures are located, though Dr. Symons stated: “Research had suggested that environmental stress, such as food shortages, made the bats more infectious and dispersing them could compound this”.