During World War I the cootie was a joke to many people who had never been bitten by one.
Three hundred years ago experimental medicine, then in its formative stage, recognized that the body louse ("cootie") carried typhus fever from one person to another.
Given the thankless task of watching over troops on leave, rounding up stragglers during battle, the Military Police got in the soldiers' hair as incessantly as the cootie.
Former Oneonta fire chief remembered as role model Former Oneonta Fire Chief Francis "Cootie" Russo Jr. was remembered by colleagues Monday as a good role model who was passionate about training firefighters and community service.
July 9, 2013 - The Daily Star