BANGKOK, July 11 (Xinhua) -- Thailand reported one more death related to influenza A/H1N1, bringing the country's death toll to 16, according to local media on Saturday.

    The latest victim was a 45-year-old man from Ayutthaya province, some 50 kilometers north to the capital of Bangkok, Rattanachai Jullaneth, chief of Ayutthaya public health office, was quoted by the Bangkok Post website as saying.

    The patient was admitted to Ayutthaya hospital last Wednesday. He, already in critical condition, suffered from a complication of pneumonia and kidney failure.

    A team of doctors tried to save his life by giving him the antiviral drug oseltamivir and washing his kidney, but they had failed, he said.

    As of Saturday morning, Thailand had confirmed 157 new infection cases, bringing the country's cumulative total to 3,228.

    Thailand reported its first two confirmed patients on May 12.

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