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On the average, mosquitoes take one millionth of a gallon of blood with each bite. That means it would take 1,120,000 bites to drain all the blood from an average adult human.
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1>> what amount of blood can a single mosquito suck
2>> the amount of blood in our body
the average mosquito can drink 0.001-0.01 milliliters of blood
the average adult human has roughly 5 liters of blood.
so it would take between 500,000-5,000,000 mosquitoes to suck that adult's body dry.
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