Wow, this... wow.

http://in.news.yahoo.com/030624/43/25eim.html

Check out the second paragraph.

"The fully-grown flies, as doctors described the parasites, have been emerging out of Chandan Goswami's genitals and flying off for more than two weeks now."

Yeah, I heard about this a few days ago. Bad times.

*Reads second paragraph
Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow!

O____________O

Sound Off feels like a tabloid with all this crazy stories recently...

Though this is a bad thing to have, it's probably not quite as bad as the candiru:

http://www.angelfire.com/mo2/animals...h/candiru.html

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/000519.html

"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. Blood is drawn, and the candiru gorges itself on both the blood and body tissue, its body sometimes expanding due to the amount of blood. This is all said to be very painful for the poor person who has this happen to him or her. Unfortunately, they are almost impossible to remove due to the spines. Amputation of the private areas is the cheapest, and most life-changing, way to remove the fish."

DAMN !!!!! No way I'm goin to South America.

There's only one documented case of the candiru fish actually "attacking" a human being.

It still sounds painful, though.

You want to stick an apple in my *what*!?! :eek:

Sounds like a twisted commercial, " How long does it take to dissolve a urethritic parasite with an apple?
The world may never know...."

Is urethritic even a word?

Quote:

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And then he saw the flies intermittently coming out of his penis.

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I hope no one ever says this about me.