# Is it possible to die from too many mosquito bites? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 18, 2011, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-die-from-too-many-mosquito-bites/603398 "2011-11-18T23:22:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8
**Author:** ![JBDivmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@JBDivmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBDivmstr)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-die-from-too-many-mosquito-bites/603398/8 "2011-11-19T05:19:52Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > Some semi-recent threads with useful information: > > [Death by mosquito - Factual Questions - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=429060) > [Could enough mosquitos make a person die of blood loss? - Factual Questions - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=434996) Thanks, **Telemark**! 🙂 I found **rowrrbazzle** ’s post from the second thread you cited to be very interesting. > [@Could enough mosquitos make a person die of blood loss?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-enough-mosquitos-make-a-person-die-of-blood-loss/417721/8): > > 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: --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-die-from-too-many-mosquito-bites/603398)._