HANTA virus, please LOL
New Mexico is the only place in the country where there are deaths from Bubonic Plague every year. Mostly on the Navajo Reservation, however, not that you would feel any better about that if you discovered welts on your butt after camping in the Four Corners area... As Blue says, mostly it is those ground squirrells and the prairie dogs who have the infected fleas. Few people know that Ampicillin cures the plague neatly. I would be considerably more worried about Rocky Mountain Spotted Tick Fever, which is like Malaria and never leaves your body again. So just keep out of the "hot spots" at certain times of the year and you will not have any problems. You have a better chance of getting hepatitis at a Mexican restaurant than you do of catching any of the more exotic stuff
As for the dangers of driving in Indian territory, yep, they are very real but you are more likely to run over one of them passed out in the middle of the road at night than to be hit by one. We used to have a joke: How can you tell who hit you? If it was on the wrong side of the road it was a drunk. If it was in the middle of the road it was an Indian." Drunken Indians also like to lie down on train tracks, which account for at least one death per month in the state. So long as we are talking about Indians, I nominate the Apache tribes as having the hottest and most intelligent men in the state. They are also the only tribe I know of who took charge of educating and developing opportunities for their people more than 40 years ago, utilizing their natural resources for good instead of selling out to exploitment and casinos, which resulted in a stability which is unknown elsewhere. Those are Indians who definitely can beat the whites still
