A man has died after being bitten by a snake in West Australia's remote Goldfields region.

Police said the 41-year-old man was bitten while trying to pick up what was believed to be a western brown snake in Laverton last Wednesday.

The officer in charge of Laverton police station, Senior Sergeant Heath Soutar, said the man was bitten multiple times including on his hand and arm.

"He came across the snake which was near the shire offices in the main area of town," he said.

"Another person was attempting to kill the snake and the man that was bitten intervened, picked up the snake and as a result of picking it up was bitten two to three times."

Senior Sergeant Soutar said the man did not seek any medical attention after being bitten.

"He didn't seek any medical attention despite other people being in the area and trying to assure him that he needed medical attention," he said.

"He ended up going to a campsite very close to town and ended up collapsing approximately half an hour to 45 minutes later."

Police and an ambulance crew went to the site where the man had collapsed and performed first aid.

He was taken to the Laverton hospital where he was later declared dead.

The snake was captured and killed.

Snake in police freezer pending identification

Senior Sergeant Soutar said experts who had viewed pictures believed it was a western brown snake.

"We sent some photos down to a specialist in Perth and he believes it is a western brown," he said.

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"There's different kinds of western browns all through the area and his preliminary identification is that.

"The snake, which we do have here in the freezer at the police station, we're going to send down to Perth and they're going to do a formal identification.

"They do a scale count and other tests and then they'll be able to determine for the coroner exactly what type of snake it was."

The deceased man came from the Indigenous community of Blackstone near Warburton.

Two children have also been bitten by snakes in WA's Wheatbelt in recent days.

Yesterday a three-year-old boy was bitten in Dandaragan and flown to Perth for treatment.

A six year old was bitten in Moora on Sunday.

Both children have since been discharged from hospital.

The last reported death from a snake bite in WA was in 2010.