page_title: Cooties
hierarchical_section_title: Cooties
caption_attribution_description: Image of Cootie Game, dated 1918
context_page_description: Cooties is a fictitious childhood disease. It is used in the United States and Canada as a rejection term and an infection tag game. It is similar to the British 'dreaded lurgi', and to terms used in the Nordic countries, in Italy, Australia and New Zealand. A child is said to "catch" cooties through close contact with an "infected" person or from an opposite-sex child of a similar age.
context_section_description: Cooties is a fictitious childhood disease. It is used in the United States and Canada as a rejection term and an infection tag game (such as Humans vs. Zombies). It is similar to the British 'dreaded lurgi', and to terms used in the Nordic countries, in Italy, Australia and New Zealand.  A child is said to "catch" cooties through close contact with an "infected" person or from an opposite-sex child of a similar age.
caption: Cootie Game, a board game from 1918
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