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[gemfyre]

Taken from - http://www.angelfire.com/mo2/animals1/catfish/candiru.html

When candirus parasitize humans, it is usually only when they are skinny-dipping while urinating in the water. The candiru tastes the urine stream and follows it back to the human. It then swims up the anus and lodges itself somewhere in the urinary tract with its spines.

Learn a bit of basic anatomy PLEASE! I don't recommend using this site for valid info on this particular fish.

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[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It would seem some information about this fish is for real and urologists have actually found it and it's traditional remedies to be useful for research (a tea they make that dissolves the fish pretty much may also be useful for dissolving kidney stones).

But most of the info seems to be urban legend.