A Current News Story Describes a Cruise Ship in the Caribbean

A current news story describes a cruise ship in the Caribbean with an outbreak of diarrheal illness, affecting hundreds of people. With all of those people in a small area, opening and closing doors, using handrails, etc, you are trying to ?gure out what infectious agent may be the cause. Your most likely guess is that the pathogen is ______.

A) hepatitis B
B) Clostridium di?cile
C) shiga-toxin-producing E. coli
D) norovirus
E) cholera