[BEIJING, China (CNN) -- A woman who survived nine days trapped in debris Wednesday became the latest in a series of aganist-the-odds rescues in China, where the official death toll from last week's massive earthquake has risen to 41,353.
State media reported that medical teams had now reached all affected villages in remote regions of China's southwestern Sichuan province and were now battling infections in a bid to prevent infection epidemics.
Doctors have so far found 58 cases of gas gangrene, a bacterial infection that produces gas within infected flesh, according to the Xinhua news agency. It said the cases did not represent an epidemic.
At least 32,666 people remain missing following the 7.9-magnitude quake, which also left 274,683 injured.]-CNN
