Use reasoning to answer the following question. What is considered nonliving?
Options:
- (A) Leptospirosis
- (B) major threat to health
- (C) smallest agent of disease
- (D) harmful substances
- (E) direct damage to the lungs
- (F) Food poisoning
- (G) an area swollen with pus
- (H) loses an electron

Show your work and conclude with the exact phrasing "Therefore, the final answer is [answer]." where [answer] is just the final number or expression that solves the problem.
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Viruses are usually considered to be nonliving. Viruses Viruses are the smallest agents of disease. The smallest agents of diseases are nonliving.
So, the answer is (C).