When: Tue., March 9, 7 p.m. 2021 Throughout the last year, news articles and health specialists have been consistently referring back to “the Great Influenza,” but on March 9, the Ferndale Library will facilitate a virtual lecture featuring retired OCC teacher Dennis Fiems. Fiems will enlighten everyone in attendance on the devastating flu epidemic that killed millions worldwide more than 100 years ago. Fiems will talk about the staggering impact this virus had upon everyone’s lives on the planet, which started to spread in 1918, the final year of World War I. The CDC estimates that upwards of 500 million people became infected during this pandemic, which would have equated to nearly one-third of the world’s population at that time. Fiems will detail all how this virus was able to spread and how the machinations of a large-scale war in Europe exacerbated the situation.