Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With the school year and Halloween just around the corner, it's high-time to brush up on Cooties, the genre-blending, all-star ...

We all know that cooties aren’t real. (Besides, we’ve all been vaccinated sufficiently as kids, so we’re safe.) But if they were real, what disease would cooties be? Well, let’s look at the ...

"Cooties" refers to a highly infectious disease. The word "cootie" derives from the Tagalog word "kutu," or "parasitic biting insect." The related word "kudis" translates to "playground death." The ...

Sheridan Singleton is a unique blend of bubbly with a dash of darkness and a smack of peculiar wit. She has a colorful background, and her idiosyncratic but relatable personality is what drives her to ...

Of all the germs kids are exposed to on the playground, there’s one they freak out about more than any other: cooties. The word first appeared during World War I as soldiers’ slang for the painful ...

“Cooties” was the first horror movie to earn a distribution deal at Sundance – and it won’t be the last. Elijah Wood produced the movie and also stars in it alongside Rainn Wilson, Allison Pill, Jack ...

It’s a seemingly normal day at a Midwestern small-town elementary school. We follow an eager young substitute teacher named Clint—an aspiring novelist who lives at home with his mother—as he tackles ...

The other day I made a comment about cooties. The person I said it to became upset. I was referring to cooties as an infectious bug — flu — and she took it as meaning lice. Which is it? You're both ...

The horror-comedy “Cooties” — a genially low-budget tale of teachers fighting off a pack of elementary-school-age zombies — milks its midnight-movie aesthetic for all it is worth, mixing obviously ...

A sudden and mysterious outbreak of communicable disease began recently in my apartment building in Manhattan. Three 7-year-olds, a boy and two girls, were sharing the elevator one day with a ...