Poisonings, suicides fuel rise in U.S. injury deaths.Dec 13, 2007.WASHINGTON (Reuters).The death rate from injury in the United States is rising this decade after declining since the late 1970s, spurred by increases in accidental poisonings and suicides, health officials said on Thursday.The injury death rate nationally increased 5.5 percent from 1999 to 2004 after a two-decade period of decline, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. [ See ]