Just wondering when I can heal? I don't like what I have and I've a funny feeling I know what it's going to become and don't want the strain anymore. Help please?

You might be able to cancel it out by changing your skin or something to a different zombie strain if you have one, but I'm not 100% sure.
I tried and all I got was an overlap x_x I hate the Blood Tooth Fungus in RL and I know that this is what this will progress to. I don't want to have it in my wardrobe XS

Last year you could only heal after the virus has gotten to the last stage.
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I'm pretty sure it's always been that you can't heal until you've reached the final stage of the virus. So if you don't like it, I guess use coverup items?
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healing would remove the skin from the wardrobe?

Healing as in redeeming the skin. I don't think you can remove the skin because if I remember correctly, it automatically redeems the skin once it hits the last stage.
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so how do I stop this infection? How do I keep it from becoming permanent?

All you can do is ride it out and ignore it when it shows up in the wardrobe. There is no way to get rid of them except to redeem. The preview will show no matter if you have the skin or not once they add the new ones to the wardrobe. Just a matter of a greyscale preview or color.
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You can adblock the skins in the wardrobe. It will still show the full body preview if you hover over it, but you won't have to see the little preview window.
Can you go back to the page where you purchased your strain and click the "I don't want to be a zombie anymore" button? I'm not infected yet, so that's at least showing up as an option for me