Help! Alien bacteria are attacking!

Here's a little gem of science fun from my buddy Amedeo. The bacteria, it seems, are trying to turn us all into pod people.

I'm sure there's value in this somewhere, but on my scale of preferred things to think about - well this is down pretty damn low.

From the Wired story "People are Human-Bacteria Hybrid" we get this:

"More than 500 different species of bacteria exist in our bodies, making up more than 100 trillion cells. Because our bodies are made of only some several trillion human cells, we are somewhat outnumbered by the aliens. It follows that most of the genes in our bodies are from bacteria, too."

If they were made of metal, at least then we could call ourselves cyborgs. What does this mean we are? Bactoborgs?

Cheers,
-SueVo