This article locates the symbolic construction of 'corrupted purity' - as a key assertion in Romanian parents' HPV vaccination refusal narratives - within a multiplicity of entangled rumors concerning reproduction and the state. Romania's unsuccessful HPV vaccination campaign is not unique. However, the shifting discourses around 'purity' and 'corruption' - through which some parents conveyed anxieties about their daughters being targeted for the vaccine - place a particular twist on the Romanian case of resisting the HPV vaccination. Parental discourses took the form of "clusters of rumors" about state medicine's failure to provide adequate reproductive healthcare, additive laden foods, and exposure to radioactive contamination. In these rumors, 'corruption' becomes literally embodied, through ingestion, consumption, contact, or inoculation. Parental discourses about what is being injected into their daughters' pristine bodies express their uncertainty around navigating the unsettled post-Socialist medical landscape. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
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