Yes, you read that right. A Chinese man had to have an eel surgically removed from his bladder after a mishap while undergoing an unusual spa treatment. Zhang Nan, a 56-year-old resident of Hubei ...

This is in reference to your column “Can the candiru fish swim upstream into your urethra?” (May 19, 2000). I recently heard a talk by a visiting scholar who was researching the candiru. The speaker ...

The candiru, so we are told, is a small, thin, slippery fish that will enter a human urethra if that human dares to pee in the surface waters of the Amazon region of South America (the fish is ...