My partial translation of Long Gang writes Jiang Zemin has responsibility he cannot shirk for the SARS disaster:

After SARS quietly proliferated over a period several months long while people remained entirely in the dark, it has now already become a fearful plague. As many analyses point out, originally SARS might not have presented this kind of threat, but it is only as a result of the authorities' information blockade that the people missed the chance to adopt active preventive measures, thus causing the situation to now be beyond redemption, creating heavy loss of life.

In order to allay intense foreign criticism, the Chinese Communist Party announced April 20th that health minister Zhang Wenkang and Beijing Mayor Meng Xuenong were to be relieved of their duties. As people have pointed out, Zhang Wenkang and Meng Xuenong were merely the scapegoats. Actually, it is not difficult to see that it is Jiang Zemin, hiding in Zhongnanhai, who is the chief instigator who blocked discovery of the truth about SARS, and Zhang Wenkang was taking punishment for Jiang.

According to material now available, SARS first appeared November 16th, 2002 in Guangdong, where it threw the populace into panic, but just at that time Jiang Zemin was leading the 16th Chinese Communist Party congress, and was actively continuing as Central Military Committee president, and in order to avoid tarnishing the image of "peace and prosperity" under Jiang Zemin's leadership or his "three represents", and to enable him to smoothly continue as Central Military Committee president, at that time the Guangdong provincial party committee secretary Li Changchun naturally actively followed Jiang Zemin's instructions, covering the truth to the best of his abilities, causing the SARS epidemic situation to proliferate world-wide, becoming a global threat. The Chinese people are the biggest victims of this deception.