FUNERAL DIRECTOR CHECKS PLACEMENT OF THE CASKET AT THE SERVICE OF CHARLENE SINGH'S FUNERAL IN COOPER CITY, FLORIDA. Funeral Director Jimmy S. Sasser, Jr. (L) checks on the casket placement of Charlene Singh, 25, in Cooper City, Florida, June 28, 2004. Singh was diagnosed two years ago with a variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the human form of Mad Cow disease and died June 20. Llelwyn Grant, a spokesman for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that no deaths in the United States have been previously reported. REUTERS/Gary I Rothstein