Chikungunya infection in a French traveller returning from the Maldives, October, 2009.

In the last years, cases of chikungunya fever have been reported in international travellers returning from the Indian Ocean region. The cases have been linked to the re-emergence of chikungunya fever on Indian Ocean islands in 2006. We describe the first case of chikungunya fever in a French traveller returning from Male, an island of the Maldives islands, confirming the permanence of virus circulation by the end of 2009.