article_snippet.sent: Tara and Gavin Hills, from Kanata, Canada, have been firmly in the anti-vaccination camp, that is until Tara and Gavin Hills, from Kanata, Canada seven children contracted whooping cough.
article_snippet.sent: Tara Hills and Gavin Hills, have been anti-vaxxers for six years, but all that changed when their seven young children came down with whooping cough .
article_snippet.sent: According to KidsHealth.org, before a vaccine was developed, whooping cough - also known as pertussis - killed up to 10,000 people in the US annually.
article_snippet.sent: The introduction of a vaccine has reduced the number of fatalities caused by the infection each year to 30, but in recent years the number of cases has been on the rise.
article_snippet.sent: three children partially vaccinated, but then stopped because she and her husband have grown suspicious of what Tara Hills described on Tara Hills blog, The ScientificParent.com, as the 'Big Pharma-Government-Media conspiracy.'
article_snippet.sent: Weary: Tara Hills wrote that she and her husband decided to stop vaccinating she and her husband children because she and her husband didn't trust the health care system .
article_snippet.sent: At risk: The Hills' three eldest kids were partially vaccinated, but the four youngest ones got no shots at all, leaving The Hills' three eldest kids vulnerable . '
article_snippet.sent: Were these vaccines even necessary in this day and age?'
article_snippet.sent: In an ironic twist - one of many in the story of Tara Hills evolution as anti-vaxxers - their children have been scheduled to get their first shots soon when whooping cough struck, reported CTV News. '
article_snippet.sent: I looked again at the science and evidence for community immunity and found myself gripped with a very real sense of personal and social responsibility before God and man,Tara Hills wrote on Tara Hills blog, adding that one of Tara Hills main concerns was that Tara Hills kids may have infected Tara Hills sister's unvaccinated infant.
highlights_snippet.sent: Tara and Gavin Hills, from Canada, stopped vaccinating Tara and Gavin Hills, from Canada children six years ago after losing trust in the health care system .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: All seven Hills kids, between ages of 10 months and 10 years, came down with whooping cough last week .
  