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The dominican republic is rolling out new safety measures after a series of american deaths. 14 americans have died while visiting the island since june after last year raising major concerns about safety and ultimately deterring travelers from the popular tourist destination. jacqui heinrich is following the story. jacqui? >> harris, tourism makes up a sixth of the economy and the total employment. since these deaths, it's way down. one report showing tourism took a 75% drop since june. now this effort to re-assure travelers. among the initiative, a tourist center, twice as frequent inspectio...

They're living close together, there is a lot less very good public health measures in place. we're having a scabies epidemic among them. that's skin condition with intense itching and rash due to a mite and it's highly contagious. and ten to 25% of the immigrants coming in this way have scabies. tuberculosis, we thought we were stamping that out in north america. it's now reemerging. multiple drug resistant tuberculosis, which is harder and harder to treat. denge fever, 50 to 100 million new cases a year world wide. in mexico, it is indemic. it's a terrible disease. you get fatigued, bones hu...

Leprosy, extremely rare. denge fever, you need mosquitoes. but they're starting to breed now in south texas. this is a major problem in texas and arizona now. >> given the close quarters that we see in terms of the holding areas and the transport of the kids here and then adults as well, we're looking at also a school season about to start. is someone working on cures for these and preventive steps that parents can take before the school season takes in the fall? what do we need to know? >> measles is going to spread among anyone that hasn't been vaccinated. it has a 90% ineffective rate. make...

full of details in one minute for you here on cnn. a free election four decades overdue. the first real live democratic exercise in libya since the moammar gadhafi era. nearly 3 million libyans picked parliament members today waiting in long lines to vote at polling stations all across the country. we've heard a few disruptions but overall international election observers are pleased. >> in the rest of the country things have been going smoothly. reports from the east where it's been more difficult but even there the jaft majority of citizens could cast their votes peacefully. >> to ...