The Amazon.
I'd rather be bitten by a Piranha than attacked by a candiru:
The fish is attracted by the smell of human urine. After tasting the urine the candiru may follow the urine stream back to the human. It then swims up the urethra and uses its spines to manifest itself somewhere in the urinary tract. After having spread the spines like an umbrella the candiru finally starts to draw blood and may grow by the amount of blood that is consumed. It eats away the muscous membranes and tissues until it is stopped either by hemorrhage or the host. Every attempt to catch the fish by the tail will fail since once in the urethra, it cannot be pulled out because the spines are spread like an umbrella. Men as well as women can be attacked by the candiru.
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zacherynuk @echo off, Wed 18 Jul 2012, 11:05,
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That's bullshit.
It does no such thing. The dangers of unverified interweb sources, eh?
(, Wed 18 Jul 2012, 12:01, Reply)