Public Health Image Library

The Public Health Image Library (PHIL) is a freely accessible electronic gateway to the CDC’s vast collection of images. Most of the images are in the public domain and can be used freely, but if an image is not in the public domain, copyright information is provided. PHIL consists of the database of images and five pages as follows: Search, FAQs, About, Contacts, and Links.

Users must have a current Java‐enabled Web browser; Internet Explorer is recommended, but Netscape also works. PHIL also requires that users enable their browsers to accept cookies, but the cookie expires as soon as the...