Is there a type of fish that can swim up your penis?

Question

I was watching CSI and it happened. just curious?

Answer 1

Yes. It is called the candiru and lives in South America.

It drinks blood, and is attracted to the smell of urine. It can swim up your penis and use its bony spines to prevent itself from being taken out.

Answer 2

oh.. my.. god, it's actually true.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candir%C3%BA

‎The candirú or canero (Vandellia cirrhosa) or toothpick fish is a freshwater fish in the group commonly called the catfish. It is found in the Amazon River and has a reputation among the natives as the most feared fish in its waters, even over the piranha. The species has been known to grow to a size of 6 inches in length and is eel shaped and translucent, making it almost impossible to see in the water. The candirú is a parasite.

It is feared by the natives because it is attracted to urine[2], and if the bather is nude it will swim into an orifice (the vagina and even the penis—and deep into the urethra) and because of spines protruding from the fish, it is almost impossible to remove except through surgery.[citation needed] The fish locates its host by following a water flow to its source and thus urinating while bathing increases the chance of a candirú homing in on a human urethra. Natives have also been known to bathe facing the current, as doing so would decrease the chances of the organism lodging itself in the rectum.[citation needed] Other orifices such as the penis or vagina are covered up with the use of hands.

Answer 3

Fish That Swims Up Urethra

Answer 4

Fish Swims Up Urine Stream

Answer 5

Vampire Catfish

Family: Trichomycteridae (Pencil or parasitic catfishes)
Order: Siluriformes (catfish)
Class: Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes)

While it is been written that this fish enters the urethra of human bathers (one article - Lins, Journal of Urology, 1945) claims a U.S. navy surgeon named Charles Ammerman operated on three candirú victims, in one case slicing into the bladder to extract the fish. Now, it is certain it does based on a recent report of a human having urinated while in the water and the Candirú entered through his penis opening. The catfish had to be surgically removed at a hospital in Manaus. The disbelieving urologist (Dr.Anoar Samad) who performed the operation was not certain at first the fish was in the urethral tract but x-rays proved it was in there stuck. (Information verified by Dr. Paulo Petry, Bio-Amazonia Conservation). The Candirú is considered by some to be the only known vertebrate to parasitism human beings, however that is an erroneous postulation. Truth is the fish enters humans more by accident than design, fortunately it is rare occurrence they enter human bodies! Schultz (Piranhas - Fact and Fiction, 1964 and Myers, 1977 Piranha Book) related some interesting stories of this fish. One in particular having to do with Candirú being found in drowned bodies of mammals. Schultz states Candirú "can hollow out the entire body and when these mammals are pulled to shore, the Candirú fall out!" He also related a local belief that "Candirú would follow the stream of urine of a person standing on the banks of a stream, to get into the urinary tract!" Of course that is not true, the fish doesn't do that deliberately

This little catfish has been known to enter the gills of fishes where its parasitic nature takes over by feeding on blood and bits of flesh. Such is the nature of this miniature beast---a vampire-like to say the least! A smaller Amazonian fish, dubbed the vampire catfish, was recently discovered in the Araguaia River of the Amazon Basin

Answer 6

This is a popular myth and its undefined whether or not it is true, Native Americans claim that they do in fact swim up vagina's but not penis' it is not clear wheather or not it is true at all though.

Answer 7

There is.... or it's a leech or .. something..........

I have noooooo idea what it's called though..