# Could enough mosquitos make a person die of blood loss?

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**Created:** [September 1, 2007, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-enough-mosquitos-make-a-person-die-of-blood-loss/417721 "2007-09-01T12:44:41Z")\
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Let’s say the average mosquito wheal is 5 mm in diameter. That gives it an area of about 19.6 sq mm. The area of an adult human’s skin is about 1.8 sq m, or 1800000 sq mm. Therefore your entire body would be covered in wheals by roughly 92000 mosquito bites. If that didn’t kill you by itself, you’d probably wish it had.

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