India, Dec. 12 -- Though fortified rice, wheat, iodised salt, milk and oil are set to become a major part of the national malnutrition control plan soon, it seems the Government has not warmed up to the idea of providing fortified salt with the diethylcarbamazine (DEC) programme in States plagued by Lymphatic Filariasis (LF), a profoundly painful and disfiguring disease. This despite various studies asserting that a combination of fortified salt with the anti-filarial drug, DEC, could offer an intervention that avoids many of the barriers connected with tablet-based elimination programmes. The intervention has been successfully tried in several countries including India - which has 40 per cent of the world's LF cases - and has been used ope...