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Comatose.Captain: You did quote me correctly, but failed in interpreting it. I did say "
Unless your overall health state is bad" and being a specialist in transmissible diseases, I firmly believe that this is an absolutely correct statement. Actually, it's travel to disease-endemic countries that turned me to a frequent traveller 
As for the stats concerning the overall mortality, it varies between <1% and <10% depending on what exactly one is measuring. This varies, unfortunately, from country to country, and numbers of cases etc. simply can't be added to be divided by number of deaths, etc. Matters are much more complicated than that. As for travel, well, just think of the worldwide number of flu cases and the corresponding mortality every single year (I'm not talking about the epidemics!) and, as a consequence, nobody should be travelling in the northern hemisphere during the winter months.
By the way, what on earth does BMWMOT mean in plain English? 