Thailand's Public Health Ministry on Friday reported one more death case due to the A/H1N1 virus contraction, bringing the country's death toll to 15.

The latest victim is a 63-year-old woman in Paknam district of Sa-moot-bra-karn province, next to capital Bangkok, the Bangkok Post's website quoted the ministry's Bureau of Epidemiology as saying.

The victim had had the valvular heart disease and high blood pressure prior to the new deadly virus infection, the Bureau of Epidemiology said.

Earlier, the ministry reported that the country had 146 more confirmed A/H1N1 virus infected patients, bringing the country's total number of the patients to 3,071.

Thailand had its first two confirmed patients on May 12.

(Xinhua News Agency July 10, 2009)