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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The film "Cooties" brings a new meaning to the popular playground term. Teachers are at war with their pupils-turned-zombies in a ...

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 ...

People straight up react badly when you kill kids. Our hero is depressed wannabe writer Clint (Elijah Wood), who has returned to his tiny hometown of Fort Chicken after failing to make it in the Big ...

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 ...

Young boys have teased girls for having "cooties" for years. The idea of the fictional childhood disease gets a whole new meaning in the new movie "Cooties," where if you have it, you resemble a ...

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 ...