Transmitted to humans by animals of the Ixodes genus, name - for 10 points - this disease named for a Connecticut town, caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi and  spread by deer ticks.
A vaccine for this disease has been developed by NIAID scientists using a recombinant version of Outer Surface Protein A found in the bacterium causing it.  In its second stage, this disease causes meningitis-like symptoms and such neurological complications as Bell's Palsy.  In its first stage, it is marked by acrodermatitis, chronica atrophicans, Bannwarth's Syndrome, and erythema migrans, a slowly spreading red rash in a telltale bulls-eye pattern.  Transmitted to humans by animals of the Ixodes genus, name - for 10 points - this disease named for a Connecticut town, caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi and  spread by deer ticks.
A vaccine for this disease has been developed by NIAID scientists using a recombinant version of Outer Surface Protein A found in the bacterium causing it.  
Lyme Disease