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International Organizations

The report below presents a strategy that can be used by United Nations Environment
Programme (UNEP) in managing the zombie virus. The virus has been invading many countries.
Out of the total population in each country, zombie virus infects 10% of the population. This
report provides key aspects of the strategy.

Name III. Quarantine Strategy and its Goals


Date of submission
The strategy presented here is the quarantine strategy,
which involve seclusion of individuals infected by
I. Mandate of UNEP
the zombie virus. The main goal of this strategy is to
The mandate of UNEP is: cure and develop a vaccine for the virus. It involves
To provide people with early warning of the
separating infected individuals from healthy
potential outbreak by detecting the outbreak
prior to its occurrence. population and enclosing in a place of controlled
Establish pre-, during and post-outbreak environment. Experts conduct an epidemiology study
strategies to ensure that people are safe from
to determine the prevalence of the virus.
invasion.
To communicate to international communities
on such outbreaks and, therefore, it should
IV. Measurement of Success or Failure
have a system that ensures prompt
communication in cases of emergencies
Provide prompt communication to local The success of the strategy is measured by
inhabitants. calculating a basic reproduction ratio. If the ration is
less than one, then the strategy is successful. A value
II. Precedents in Managing Zombies
that greater than 1 shows that there is rapid spread of

Combating the issues of zoonotic diseases. zombie virus and, therefore, the strategy is
unsuccessful.
Examples of these are Ebola and Zika Virus
UNEP carries out studies with the aim finding
V. Timeline
the environmental factors that contribute to
their spread
The timeline for the strategy is a three-month period.
Has been found that encroachment of wild
This involves selection of the infected persons,
areas is responsible for their spread
enclosing them and carrying out epidemiology
UNEP suggests that while treatment or
studies. The process may take longer depending on
vaccination is given against the disease, the extent of infection.
encroachment needs also to be stopped. Citations on p.2
UNEP informs people about zoonotic diseases
and play a role in combating their spread
through techniques such as quarantine
Botting, F. (2010). Zoombie London: unexceptionalities
of the new world order. In London Gothic: Place, Space
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VI. Obstacles Witchard, pp. 153-170.References


London, UK. Continuum, 2010.

The strategy is likely to face some obstacles such as: Munz, P., Hudea, I., Imad, J., Smith?, R. (2009)When

Difficulty in verification of the infected zombies attack!: Mathematical modelling of an outbreak


of zombie infection. In Infectious Disease Modelling
persons,
Lengthy and difficult processes of developing Research Progress, ed. JMTchuenche and C. Chiyaka,
a vaccine since the process entails laboratory Hauppauge NY: Nova Science Publishers pp. 133-150.
procedures, which sometimes take long.
In addition, carrying out a complete quarantine Verran J. (2013). The return of the zombies.
may be difficult to achieve as the spread is fast Microbiologist 14 (2): 26 27.
and symptoms take some time to be
observable.

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