It might be worth getting your friend to recheck. Even if the symptoms aren't as severe now. There are doctors in Australia pushing for lymes to be acknowledged, you just have to find the right ones.
It costs thousands to be treated. About 3.5 just for the testing I think. Then the cost of meds from the US.

Trey is off the meds from the US but still on herbal meds. He's mostly back to himself, but there are still signs of it.

After being diagnosed early in the year the footy coach has just had his first week back in town. He was staying with his mum who had to give up work to care for him. He is very lucky to have the locals support or he'd have lost his home & business.
Seeing him before & during really makes it sink in.

And it goes on for years. There are people who've been living with it 10 or 15 years. Some days are great, other days they can't move.
It's misdiagnosed as so many different things. From a virus that just needs to run its course, to chronic sleeping disorders, to MS.

People have passed away from it. There were 2 kids here last year who lost their mum to it 3 or 4 years ago. She'd been sick, but no one expected her to pass. It was a huge shock for the town.

I thought it was just this area, or WA. But then I looked it up & there are people all over Australia who contracted it here.