Is it possible to die from too many mosquito bites?

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@Telemark

Some semi-recent threads with useful information:

Death by mosquito - Factual Questions - Straight Dope Message Board
Could enough mosquitos make a person die of blood loss? - Factual Questions - Straight Dope Message Board

Thanks, Telemark!
I found rowrrbazzle’s post from the second thread you cited to be very interesting.

@rowrrbazzle

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.

So it looks like the average human doesn’t even have enough skin area, to acquire 1 million mosquito bites.

Unless of course, they’re able to bite thru an ***already bitten ***area of skin. :eek: