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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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[squasher.livejournal.com]

A useful link to interesting informaton... and as usual straight dope is fairly honest :)

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/000519.html