Artifact 401231.705
#3 of ACS
Based on The SCP Foundation.
ARF 401231.705
Name: Vandeilla Alencar
Gender: N/A
Date of Acquisition: 2009-04-12 13:01Z
Sentience: N/A
Weight: ~113g each
Height: ~15cm each
Volume: 2 litres
On 2009-04-08, we received a report of an unusual incident in ***SECURITY LEVEL DELTA REQUIRED***. After we received the report, a CoRe team was dispatched. The acquisition is detailed in CoRe report 4453.1024.
Events surrounding the artifact were investigated by a local doctor who has worked for ACS on occasion. His report is excerpted below.
CSL SA41238.43.20090408-01
***ATTACHMENT***
Consultant: Dr. Cosmas Alencar, M.D.
CSL No.: SA41238.43
Date: 2009-04-08
On 2009-04-06, a resident of ***SECURITY LEVEL DELTA REQUIRED*** approached a doctor at the town's small hospital, complaining of pain in his penis. Upon examination, the doctor found a fish resembling a "Candiru".
(Candiru are known, in urban legends, to be capable of swimming up a potential host's urinary stream and into his penis. In reality, their intended prey is other, larger fish, whose gills they swim into. The same backward-facing spikes that anchor them to the fish also make it remarkably difficult to remove them from a victim's penis.
However, very few cases of Candiru infesting humans have been reported, and all those which have been reported have involved the victim urinating underwater. The distinction is critical, as some scientists theorize that the Candiru mistakes the victim's urine stream for water being expelled from the gills of a fish.
It is also much more likely for women to be infested than men, due to the comparitely large size of the relevant apeture. Nonetheless, the urban legands remain attached largely to men.)
According to the patient, he had first noticed the pain shortly after urinating into a nearby river. Herbal tea had tried, brewed from the leaves of the jagua tree("Genipa americana L."). The intent of this folk remedy was to dissolve the parasite's skeleton, allowing it to be removed from the patient. From the doctor's examination, this treatment appeared to be successful.
The patient was held overnight for observation. Around 1 AM, the patient approached a nurse, complaining of pain in his urinary tract and testes. The attending performed an examination, applied local anesthetic, and removed a creature resembling the one previously removed. Several more creatures were subsequently removed before they began to exit on their own.
Over the next several hours, a number of the creatures emerged from patient's penis out of the glans and through the surface. Patient was tranquilized, and creatures began emerging from his testes and the surface of his groin. Despite doctors' best efforts the patient died of massive blood loss. Several unhatched eggs were found in his genital area.
His wife was bought in to identify the body, and confirmed that she had had sex with her husband since he had been near the river, but before he started complaining about the pain. She was detained and examined, and doctors discovered that her ovaries had somehow been converted to produce the creature's eggs. Unfortunately, it was impossible to remove the ovaries without rendering her sterile.
The couple's children were also examined, and were found to be free of infection. Public Health officials in the capital, including myself, were notified, and quarantined the area on 2009-04-08.
***END ATTACHMENT***
Artifact is a plastic 2-liter container with five of the creatures swimming in water. Personnel are instructed to change water periodically, wearing thick rubber gloves. Should there be any breach in the gloves, or should the creature come in physical contact with personnel in any way, they are instructed to report to their superior and/or the nearest physician immediately.
The animals appear to be members of the family Trichomycteridae, strongly resembling "Candiru". Unlike the more commonly known version, they apparently also possess the limited ability to reconfigure the reproductive organs of their host to simply make more of its eggs, rendering it effectively sterile.
Said eggs are either passed in the host's urine, semen, or period, or hatch while in the body, where they will burrow for the nearest surface. Depending on the location, this can cause severe pain and massive blood loss, occasionally resulting in death. If eggs are passed out of the body during sex, they can infect the second party, much like a sexually-transmitted disease.
The eggs recovered by officials in ***SECURITY LEVEL DELTA REQUIRED*** are ARF 401232.912.
SENTIENCE
Consistent with that of a standard goldfish.
EXPERIMENTS PERFORMED
Standard sentience evaluation. (EXP 11278.4513) Result: Consistent
with that of a standard goldfish.
HYPOTHESISES
Artifact may be a variant of Candiru, changed or transformed by industial pollutants, genetic manipulation, or unconventional means.
NOTES
Recommend experiments with Artifact 401211.312.
Recommend experiments with Artifact 401136.325.
Reccommend experiments with Artifact 401142.431.
Recommend experiments to determine whether artifact can terminate pregnancy in a new host.
ENDF