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Family with whooping cough out of isolation Glen Cairn mom tells of decision to vaccinate Adam Kveton
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When Tara Hills first decided to write a blog post detailing her decision to have her seven kids vaccinated, she never thought her story would go viral. But days before she planned to publish the post, she realized it was a bacteria that she would have to worry about instead. Hills, a 36-year-old mother of seven children living in Glen Cairn, was against vaccination and had been for years. Three of her kids had been partially vaccinated years before, while the rest hadn’t received any. But, after reading about an outbreak of measles in Disneyland, she decided to research vaccination until the question of whether it was safe or necessary for her children was put to rest, she said. To her surprise, after 50 hours of research, she was convinced that her R0013180991-0319
children should be vaccinated, and scheduled doctor’s appointments for all seven of them. But, just a few days before the first round of vaccinations, she was informed by doctors at CHEO that her kids, all seven of them, had whooping cough. The bacterial infection, which is best guarded against by vaccination, proved to be a strong instructional tool, said Hills. In fear for her children and for those they had been in contact with, Hills decided to write about this new development in her blog post and publish it on The Scientific Parent website on April 8. After five days of quarantine and antibiotic treatment, her family’s whooping cough ordeal is just about over, said Hills. “They are no longer contagious,” she said, adding that Ottawa Public Health has given the family the green light to go out into the community again. Public health officials would not confirm that the Hills are no longer contagious, citing privacy concerns. See SHARING, page 3
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Connor Park, left, Luke Sheppard and Quinten Stevenson with the Kanata Knight Hawks shop for groceries for the Kanata Food Cupboard on April 8. See page 14 for the story.
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