[Steven Pro]

As Mucho Reef mentioned, it is not just M. marinum that one has to worry about, although a lot of people have approached me since I wrote that article telling me of their expereince with this disease. You also have Vibrio, Palythoa and Zoanthid toxins, lionfish and rabbitfish envenomation, getting stuck by urchins and forams, sensitivity to coral and anemone stings (I have fragmented so many Euphyllia species over the years with bare hands that I am very sensitive to them now), etc. Slipping on a pair of gloves seems like a simple and reasonable precaution to me.