First conclusively identified in 1975, it is named for the town in Connecticut in which it was first observed.
This disease is caused by the corkscrew-shaped bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi and progresses in humans in three stages. Symptoms include headaches, fatigue, chills, loss of appetite, fever, and aching joints or muscles, and—in severe cases—disturbances of memory, or other neurological symptoms. First conclusively identified in 1975, it is named for the town in Connecticut in which it was first observed. FTP, name this disease, characterized by a circular rash in a bull's-eye pattern that appears anywhere from a few days to a month after the tick bite.
This disease is caused by the corkscrew-shaped bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi and progresses in humans in three stages.
{Lyme} disease