on 6/1/03 5:21 am, Ronn! Blankenship at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At 10:15 PM 1/5/03 -0500, Gary L. Nunn wrote: >> Candiru >> The vampire fish of Brazil >> >> 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. <-- > > > > Thereby displaying a shocking disregard for basic human anatomy, as well as > a lousy sense of direction . . . >
See also http://www.sciencenet.org.uk/database/Biology/0003/b00768d.html "The fish invariably dies and the dead fish and associated swelling of the lining of the urethra cause the urethra to become blocked. Surgery is required to remove the obstruction. Some recent expeditions to the Amazon region have had their personnel wear cricket box type shields to protect against candiru whilst swimming in or wading through streams. Authorities in the USA are concerned that candiru might possibly escape from aquaria and populate the rivers of the southern US. For this reason the importation into parts of the USA of any member of the family Trichomycteridae is strictly prohibited." -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Misuse of IMPs leads to strange, difficult-to-diagnose bugs. - Anguish et al. "Cocoa Programming" _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
