A Canadian mother of seven who did not have her children vaccinated is urging other parents not to go down the same path, now that all of her kids have pertussis.
In a post for The Scientific Parent, Tara Hills wrote that she thought her children had a common cold, but after a week of coughing that was becoming progressively worse, she determined something else was going on. "My youngest three children were coughing so hard they would gag or vomit," she wrote. "I'd never seen anything like this before." Once it was confirmed by emergency room doctors that the culprit was whooping cough, the family was put into quarantine.
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