Hmmm... have a look here: http://www.torhead.com/ability/31rEO5J/womp-rat-fever
Expand the link that says: Effect details.. if you look at the code it certainly should kill you in the end, but I wouldn't be suprised if they changed it
Yeah, I read that.. he wasn't really chased though, he asked them to move away and then he was too late to move out of the way himself. If he had moved right away all would have been ok.
I think the debuff you get says "Infected with Womp Rat Fever, an often fatal infection of the skin propgated by the bite of womp rats. Health regeneration reduced 50%. Fatal if untreated."
I've never suffered the full consequences myself but the tooltip states: "Causes progressive effects over 3 hours until killing the player. Requires a cure."
Gives you a codex entry too..
Once again: You can not be chased, several seconds before exploding the infected player is stunned and remains so until dead. The only way to truly target someone, that I have seen at least, is to jump off the lounge while feverish.
On a PvE server perhaps, on a PvP server they would have told you there was a PvP solution available.
Edit: ok so it was on a PvE server.. no idea what BW thinks about that.