Another BBC story linked in the article has these amazing claims:[1]

* 2005 "NASA scientists successfully revived bacteria that had been encased in a frozen pond in Alaska for 32,000 years. ... Once the ice melted, they began swimming around, seemingly unaffected."

* 2007 "scientists managed to revive an 8-million-year-old bacterium that had been lying dormant in ice, beneath the surface of a glacier in the Beacon and Mullins valleys of Antarctica"

* 2007 "bacteria were also revived from ice that was over 100,000 years old."

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/20170504-there-are-diseases...