Again, cats contracting influenza from humans is not the same as humans contracting things from cats. Zoonotic (usually used when speaking of animal to human transmission) diseases are usually one-way, and viruses are extremely species specific. These instances of viruses jumping from humans to cats are relatively new, and still extremely rare.

That said, while it is not impossible for you to have contracted something from your cat sneezing on you, it is (as I mentioned, a possible vs. likely thing) extremely unlikely. It is more likely that it was contracted from cleaning a cat box (just an example - not saying that's what happened), paws on your face/eye, dried fecal matter from box/fur/paw in the air, licking, or in some other way, as per link below. The only disease I find (and it could have been something else) that matches the upper respiratory symptoms you described (and sources differ on that as well) is a mild case of toxoplasmosis, which it could have been (and responded to antibiotics), but again, it would not be contracted from a cat sneeze, but exposure to fecal matter.

Both vets I contacted are graduates of Cornell, and concur with this:
http://www.vet.cornell.edu/fhc/broch...icdisease.html

Possible, but extremely unlikely/remote. The important thing is that you're recovered from it, and some common sense hygiene should prevent anyone from the same kind of thing.

Doc

.... this thread has taken an interesting twist

Yes, it has. I can assure Dr. Smith I don't have toxoplasmosis!

I had only lung involvement which responded quickly to Zithromax. The treatment for toxoplasmosis is very different. But the upside of that event is that is when I discovered the usefulness of dextromethorphan on my PN.
In fact many people contract toxoplasmosis from other venues. It can be pretty common on farms for example.
There is a good episode on toxoplasmosis on a series that appears on Animal Planet recently, that focused on parasites.
http://animal.discovery.com/inverteb...toxoplasmosis/

Our Vets are cat only specialists. Cats are very complex and
I defer to their opinions, therefore.

And we have discovered that Oreo's "cold" this summer was really a histamine reaction, coming from her mast cell tumor. It was not infectious after all, and that is why our other cat did not "catch" it.
Mast cell tumors secrete large amounts of histamine at times.
This report just returned from the biopsy she had on Monday.