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Candiru Fish In Your Penis

If you ever swim in the Amazon and Oranoco Rivers of South America please think twice before urinating in the water. Fish called Candiru or Carnero is attracted by urine smell (urea and ammonia) and it can insert it self into the penis or vagina while urinating. Then penis fish lodges itself somewhere in the urinary tract with its spines and it uses its mouth for feeding by sucking the blood. It is almost impossible for fish to survive inside of the human body. Removal of the fish is extremely hard due to the spines and if problem is not treated it can result in removal of the genitals.



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Lee
To alter a bit of this fact:
The fish isn't attracted to the "smell" but more the flow of water from your Penis/Vagina.

The fish aren very big so most likely you would'nt feel it untill it started to feed off your blood.

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Lee at 11:39AM, Dec 17th 2008.
Angie
Urine doesn't come out of a lady's vagina, It comes out of her urethra (just like men have!), which is in front of it.
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Angie at 07:32AM, Apr 18th 2009.
Squiggly Meyers
could this have been prevented if the guy had swim trunks with the mesh lining that rides up your ass?
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Squiggly Meyers at 11:29PM, Jun 3rd 2009.
mahendra
does these fishes dosent urinate and y cant it go inside its own penis or vagina
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mahendra at 12:37PM, Jul 6th 2009.
rdx
pls have sense in words
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rdx at 03:27PM, Jul 19th 2009.
Smart Girl
Saw this happen while watchning Discovery Channel. Even though the fish is small, you will still feel it. The guy acting it out was screaming in agony.
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Smart Girl at 01:00PM, Jul 28th 2009.
Emmanuel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candiru#Alleged_attacks_on_people
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Emmanuel at 11:40AM, Sep 17th 2009.

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