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";s:4:"text";s:6532:"they actually got the doctor who performed the surgery on the special. The screenwriter may have heard of this fish swimming up the human urethra from gossip or perhaps a personal trip to the Amazon. A soda straw is 5.3 mm. They do not contain scientific information. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Icemotoboy (talk • contribs) 05:01, 28 September 2007 (UTC). Omissions? Does it has a particular fish preference? The "Popular culture" section again has been tagged as being a "trivia" section, so a quick mediation on what this means: the {{toomuchtrivia}} tag is to alert that the content of a trivia section should be relocated and integrated elsewhere in the article. Use valid, established references, according to Wikipedia standards. I'll check back in two weeks and remove the entire section unless someone would care to justify it, and provide criteria for determining what is worthy of mention. The Candiru is REAL, as is its parasitism. - tatapyranga 200.96.234.99 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.96.234.99 (talk) 16:50, 3 September 2007 (UTC), http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/2-29-2004-51087.asp, "One way to expel the fish would be to drink the juice of the green fruit of the Jagua tree, Genipa Americana L. The juice of this fruit is brewed into a tea and drunk hot, supposedly causing the skeleton of the fish to dissolve and resulting in its expulsion from the victim within a couple hours. Most of the references lead round and round in a circle, with no original source. If then I don't see how it can be more dangerous than a vampire bat or other leechers. I travels through water into a host, usually the anus or vagina - or less commonly through the urethra while it is open (ie. An internal comment added to the article today protests: the canonical proof, is that there are 10 marks between numbers, metric is 10 based imperial is not. Nor are any of the references to the Wikipedia article directed to any articles in a scholarly medical journal. True, most people will come here just to learn about human attacks, but the article should contain more. As far as the urologist is concerned (whether or not he gets around to actually publishing something), removing a candiru from his patients penis is an awesome story no matter what. Straight Dope says the fish was 11.5 mm wide (~1/2 inch), Samad's website says 15 mm. It seems far more likely to me that the fish was inserted into the urethra. This has led to much confusion, with people looking at a 5-inch-long, 1+-inch-thick fish that was being called a 'candiru' and pointing out (quite rightly) that it couldn't fit up an urethra.) Apparently the host fish sometimes dies due to blood loss. Cecil replies: Can’t blame you for your skepticism — this is one of those stories you want desperately not to believe. It could have been a stupid bet/prank/show of machismo. Could someone please clarify the situation? Azn Clayjar 19:00, 27 April 2007 (UTC). (Note also that 'candiru' is not always used to refer only to Vandellia cirrhosa. I don't know anything about this fish either. http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2013/07/tea-leaves-and-other-particles-can-sometimes-float-upstream/, perhaps the allegations that this fish could not physically swim up the urine stream should be reevaluated. For an animal with an instinct to enter body cavities, it's not at all surprising. CharlieP216 21:50, 27 December 2006 (UTC), As far as I can see from the article, the fish injects itself to the penis. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.108.235.20 (talk) 15:47, April 9, 2007, You have to be in the Amazon River and peeing. It is especially not true that 'Simple google search or reading at a university library will yield plenty of referenced information on the topic'. Admittedly, I haven't searched super extensively, and Samad does have a website where he mentions it, but the sources on this aren't as solid as the could be. A fast, powerful swimmer, the fish possess sharp teeth and backward-pointing spines on its gill's opercle. As a person with an MD degree, my impression is that this case - like a few others I've seen on the show in the past - is based more on myth than medical science. I remember hearing that its normal attack method is to enter another fish's gills, but is that true? Anyway, I would caution against urinating in the Amazon, even if it does sound impossible for a toothpick fish to swim up the urine stream. But both these processes are time consuming. Fish gills, maybe? Some links I have found: ", This sentence is grammatically incorrect, and contradicts the previous material. Candiru, (Vandellia cirrhosa), scaleless, parasitic catfish of the family Trichomycteridae found in the Amazon River region. Updates? I have therefore moved all these references to popular culture from the trivia-tagged section to a new section of their own, and removed the old trivia-laden section. It does sound pretty unpleasant, but there are people who like sticking things in their urethras, and with 6 billion people in the world, I wouldn't be surprised if at least one thinks taking urethral sounding to that extreme is appealing. (sorry I'm typing in an American keyboard) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.231.159.15 (talk) 06:09, August 28, 2006, Yes, please remove the accent, it's *wrong* in Portuguese, would be correct in Spanish - I don't want to start an edit war, but once I edited it out and people added it back. I know I'm using OR to counter peer reviewed... oh wait, I have yet to find a journal article by co-authored by Samad as the Straight Dope article promises. I doubt its usual source of blood is the human wang. The utmost rear chance to catch the Candiru fish in the Amazon river just happened aboard Eco-Planet Amazon adventure. You're in no danger when you're out of the river. It's *REAL*, and will inject itself into the penis, if not other bodily orifices.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.163.173.127 (talk • contribs) 16:44, July 25, 2007, Theres really not much controversy around this, the fish exists. The second is a YouTube video of a TV show. Nor is it mentioned in Harrison's, a standard comprehensive textbook of medicine. These two plants together will kill and then dissolve the fish. Ow... Rgamble, Does anyone have any clue as to what a "buitach apple" is? The story goes that the candiru has a penchant for swimming up men’s toilet parts where it becomes virtually impossible to remove owing to its backwards facing spines. 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