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SOFTPEDIA: If a bather is naked, candiru can enter into one of his/her body orifices (the vagina, rectum, or even the penis-and deep into the urethra) and due to the opercle’s spines protruding from the fish, it is almost impossible to take out the fish, except through surgery. The fish probably takes the urea for water expelled from gills.
It is the Vampire Catfish, Candir￭ or Canero (Vandellia cirrhosa). This fish looks like an eel larvae, being almost completely transparent, and impossible to see in clear water, not to mention the turbid water of the Amazon.
The fish tracks down its host by following a water scent to its source and urinating while bathing increases significantly its chance of entering in a human urethra. That’s why Indians bathe facing the current, decreasing candiru’s chances of entering in the rectum, while penis or vagina are covered up with the hands.
Taken from and read more: http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-Vagina-Penis-Parasite-Fish-60299.shtml
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